Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Escobar-Garcia, Hector Alonso
• de Andrade, Daniel Júnior
• Mohammad-Doustaresharaf, Mojtaba
• Ueckermann, Edward A.

Titel

A new species of stilt-legged mite of the genus Neophyllobius Berlese (Acari: Camerobiidae) from Brazil

Ist Teil von

• Acarologia, 2024-01, Vol.64 (2), p.592-601

Ort / Verlag

Acarologia

Erscheinungsjahr

2024

Quelle

EZB Electronic Journals Library

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A new species of Neotropical Camerobiidae from Brazil, Neophyllobius (Neophyllobius) unespensis n. sp., is collected and described from the raceme-type inflorescences of a native South America forest tree, Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis Aubl. (Lecythidaceae), description based on females, a protonymph, and a larva. The new stilt-legged mite was found during two springs for two consecutive years, which coincides with the inflorescence period of this tree.