The mite family Laelapidae has been little studied in the Pacific Islands. This paper presents a new species and a new record of the genus Cosmolaelaps Berlese, 1903 from Fiji and Tonga. Cosmolaelaps dioscorea sp. nov. was collected from yam (Plantae: Dioscoreaceae: Dioscorea sp.) in Fiji and Cosmolaelaps paulista Freire & Moraes, 2007 from taro (Plantae: Araceae: Colocasia Schott) in Fiji and Tonga. The new species is described.
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19 May 2017
A new species and a new record of Cosmolaelaps Berlese (Acari: Laelapidae) from the Pacific Islands
Omid Joharchi,
Qing-Hai Fan,
Elham Arjomandi
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Systematic and Applied Acarology
Vol. 22 • No. 6
June 2017
Vol. 22 • No. 6
June 2017
Fiji
Mesostigmata
taro
taxonomy
Tonga
yam