Comprehensive Description
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Brevipalpus lilium Baker
Brevipalpus lilium Baker, 1949:369.—De Leon 1965:74.
This species has been collected from various hosts in Washington, Oregon, Florida, and Hawaii. De Leon collected it in British Guiana on Montrichardia arborescens Schott (= M. aculeata Schott), Synedrella nodiflora Gaertner, and Corchorus olitorius Linnaeus. We have collected it on Abutilon sp. and Hyptis sp., Tepic, Nayarit, 28 July.
This is a variable species, possibly a variant of Brevipalpus californicus (Banks). The dorsal reticulate pattern of the propodosoma may be entirely or irregularly reticulate.
Group II
This group includes only one species, which is here described. Tarsus II has a single solenidion, there is only one distal seta on the palpus, and there are six pairs of hysterosomal margin setae.
- bibliographic citation
- Baker, Edward William, Tuttle, Donald M., and Abbatiello, M. 1975. "The false spider mites of northwestern and north central Mexico (Acarina, Tenuipalpidae)." Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.194
