One new genus and six new species of eriophyoid mite from Mountain Trusmadi, Malaysia are described and illustrated. They are Isoannulus morrisianaesp. nov. on Diospyros morrisiana (Ebenaceae), Abacarus bicolorussp. nov. on Lespedeza bicolor (Leguminosae), Parneometaculus persicariaegen. nov. & sp. nov. on Persicaria chinensis (Polygonaceae), Shevtchenkella miscanthissp. nov. on Miscanthus floridulus (Poaceae), Davisella nitidissp. nov. on Artocarpus nitidus subsp. lingnanensis (Moraceae), and Vimola blastissp. nov. on Blastus cochinchinensis (Melastomataceae). Furthermore, two new records of eriophyoid mites are found: Knorella bambusae (Kuang & Feng, 1989) rec. nov. on Bambusa sp. (Poaceae) and Diptilomiopus melastomae (Boczek & Chandrapatya, 2002) rec. nov. on Melastoma malabathricum (Melastomataceae). All these new eriophyoid mite species and new records are vagrants causing no apparent symptom to their host plants.
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7 October 2019
Eriophyoid mites from Malaysia with description of one new genus, six new species and two new records (Acari: Eriophyoidea)
Yan-Mei Yuan,
Xiao-Feng Xue
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Abacarus
Davisella
Isoannulus
Parneometaculus
Shevtchenkella
taxonomy
Trusmadi