Two new species and a new record of the genus Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Kamran; Hafiz Muhammad Saqib Mushtaq; Fahad Jaber Alatawi

doi:10.11158/saa.28.1.3

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Muhammad Kamran,¹ Hafiz Muhammad Saqib Mushtaq,¹ Fahad Jaber Alatawi^1,*

¹Acarology Laboratory, Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box No. 2460, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia

^*Corresponding author: falatawi@ksu.edu.sa

Abstract

This paper describes two new species of predatory mites belonging to the genus Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiisae), namely Paragigagnathus neodesertorum sp. nov. from Acacia raddiana L. (Fabaceae), and, P. jazanensis sp. nov. from Tamarix sp. (Tamaricaceae). Also, P. amantis (Chaudhri, Akbar & Rasool, 1979) is a new species record for Saudi Arabia, reported from Tamarix sp.

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Muhammad Kamran, Hafiz Muhammad Saqib Mushtaq, and Fahad Jaber Alatawi "Two new species and a new record of the genus Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Saudi Arabia," Systematic and Applied Acarology 28(1), 20-28, (4 January 2023). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.28.1.3

Received: 8 August 2022; Accepted: 3 October 2022; Published: 4 January 2023

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