<p class='Body'>Tarsocheylidae, a newly recorded family with description of a new species from China

Authors :: Fei-Ping Zhang
Yun Xu
Jie-Qin Wu
Yu-Zhen Zhu
Source :: Systematic and Applied Acarology. 24:2492-2502
Publication Year :: 2019
Publisher :: Systematic and Applied Acarology Society, 2019.
Abstract: A new species of the genus Hoplocheylus Atyeo and Baker (Acariformes: Heterostigmata: Tarsocheylidae), H. lindquisti Xu & Zhang sp. nov., is described based on larva, deutonymph, adult male and female specimens collected from the bark of dead Pinus massoniana Lamb. infested with Monochamus alternatus (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in Fuzhou city, China. This is the first report of the genus Hoplocheylus and the family Tarsocheylidae in China.

Subjects :: Larva
Pinus massoniana
Ecology
biology
Heterostigmatina
Zoology
biology.organism_classification
Acariformes
Monochamus alternatus
Genus
Insect Science
Acari
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Longhorn beetle

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