Proctolaelaps bickleyi (Bram) (Acari: Melicharidae) is an edaphic predatory mite commonly associates with insects. Although P. bickleyi has been reported from many countries worldwide, it is reported herein for the first time in Japan from laboratory cultures of Chilo suppressalis (Walker) and Cossus insularis (Staudinger) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Cossidae). Proctolaelaps bickleyi is redescribed and illustrated from females, males, deutonymphs, protonymphs and larvae. The morphological ontogeny of idiosomal and leg chaetotaxy is discussed and a key to the Japanese species of Proctolaelaps is provided.
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26 July 2021
Ontogenetic description of Proctolaelaps bickleyi (Bram) (Acari: Melicharidae), newly recorded from lepidopteran insect cultures in Japan
Mohamed W. Negm,
Tetsuo Gotoh
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Systematic and Applied Acarology
Vol. 26 • No. 7
July 2021
Vol. 26 • No. 7
July 2021
insects
Mesostigmata
mites
morphogenesis
parasitic
systematics