Ontogenetic description of Proctolaelaps bickleyi (Bram) (Acari: Melicharidae), newly recorded from lepidopteran insect cultures in Japan

Mohamed W. Negm; Tetsuo Gotoh

doi:10.11158/saa.26.7.11

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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, 26(7):1314-1326 (2021). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.26.7.11

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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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Mohamed W. Negm and Tetsuo Gotoh "Ontogenetic description of Proctolaelaps bickleyi (Bram) (Acari: Melicharidae), newly recorded from lepidopteran insect cultures in Japan," Systematic and Applied Acarology 26(7), 1314-1326, (26 July 2021). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.26.7.11

Received: 31 March 2021; Accepted: 18 June 2021; Published: 26 July 2021

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