Three new species of the eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Guangxi, China

ABSTRACT

In this paper, three new species of eriophyoid mites from Guangxi, China, are described and illustrated. They are as follows: Paraphytoptus niveae sp. nov. infesting Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich. (Urticaceae), Boczekiana broussonetiae sp. nov. infesting Broussonetia papyrifera (L.) L’Hér. ex Vent. (Moraceae), and Trimeroptes kaempferi sp. nov. infesting Broussonetia kaempferi Siebold (Moraceae). All three new species are vagrants on the lower leaf surface and cause no apparent symptom to their host plants.

KEYWORDS:

• Eriophyidae
• Diptilomiopidae
• taxonomy
• oriental region

Acknowledgments

We are grateful to Prof. Zhong-Hui Ma (Agricultural College, Guangxi University) for identifying the host plants and Pan-Pan Li, Shuai Tian, Shuai Tang, Feng-Ping Qin, and Rao-Rao Mo for their kindly help in collecting mites in China. We would also like to express our sincere thanks to reviewers for their suggestions which improve the quality of article.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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Funding

This work was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grant number 31872259) and GDAS Special Project of Science and Technology Development (No. 2020GDASYL-20200102021).