Description of four new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Andhra Pradesh, India

ABSTRACT

Four new mite species of the family Phytoseiidae, namely, Euseius chittooriensis sp. nov., Euseius karpasae sp. nov., Euseius neoalstoniae sp. nov., and Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) gilbertoi sp. nov., are described based on specimens collected from plants at the southern part of Andhra Pradesh, India.

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KEYWORDS:

• New species
• parasitiformes
• taxonomy
• euseius
• typhlodromus (anthoseius)

Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to the Vice Chancellor and Director of Research, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya for providing facilities to perform the work. We are grateful to Professor Gilberto J. de Moraes, ESALQ, Piracicaba, Brazil, for his valuable and many suggestions in the preparation of this manuscript; to Dr. Vikram Prasad, Founder, Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA; to Dr. R. B. Halliday, Section Editor, Zootaxa, Canberra, Australia, for their inspiration, valuable suggestions, and providing literature.

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