Kamran Muhammad, Mirza Jawwad Hassan, Alatawi Fahad Jaber
Acarology Laboratory, Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agricultural Sciences, King Saud University, 11451, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Zookeys. 2016 Jun 14(598):27-55. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.598.9060. eCollection 2016.
The two tetranychid genera Paraplonobia Wainstein and Neopetrobia Wainstein (Trombidiformes: Tetranychidae) are reported for the first time from Saudi Arabia. Three new species Paraplonobia (Anaplonobia) arabica Mirza & Alatawi, sp. n., Paraplonobia (Anaplonobia) haloxylonia Alatawi & Mirza, sp. n. and Paraplonobia (Anaplonobia) tabukensis Kamran & Alatawi, sp. n. are described and illustrated based on adult females, collected from Prosopis juliflora (SW.) Dc. (Fabaceae) and Haloxylon salicornicum Bunge (Amaranthaceae) from two different regions of Saudi Arabia. Neopetrobia mcgregori (Pritchard and Baker) is redescribed and illustrated based on female collected from Cynodon dactylon L. (Poaceae).The diagnostic morphological features including leg chaetotaxy of all known species of the subgenus Anaplonobia is tabulated. A key to the world species of the genus Paraplonobia is also provided.
在沙特阿拉伯首次报道了叶螨科的两个属,即副平叶螨属(Paraplonobia Wainstein)和新彼得叶螨属(Neopetrobia Wainstein)(真螨目:叶螨科)。基于从沙特阿拉伯两个不同地区的牧豆树(Prosopis juliflora (SW.) Dc.,豆科)和盐生假木贼(Haloxylon salicornicum Bunge,苋科)上采集的成年雌螨,描述并图示了三个新物种,即阿拉伯副平叶螨(Paraplonobia (Anaplonobia) arabica Mirza & Alatawi, sp. n.)、盐生假木贼副平叶螨(Paraplonobia (Anaplonobia) haloxylonia Alatawi & Mirza, sp. n.)和塔布克副平叶螨(Paraplonobia (Anaplonobia) tabukensis Kamran & Alatawi, sp. n.)。基于从狗牙根(Cynodon dactylon L.,禾本科)上采集的雌螨,对麦氏新彼得叶螨(Neopetrobia mcgregori (Pritchard and Baker))进行了重新描述和图示。列出了副平叶螨亚属所有已知物种包括腿上毛序的诊断形态特征。还提供了平叶螨属世界物种检索表。