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A NEW SPECIES OF ERIOPHYOID MITE WITH EYE-LIKE STRUCTURES, AND REMARKS ON THE GENUS PHYTOPTUS (ACARI: PROSTIGMATA: PHYTOPTIDAE)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ian M. Smith
Ian M. Smith
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa
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Abstract

Adults of Phytoptus oculatus n. sp. are described. These are unusual among Eriophyoidea in possessing eye-like structures lateral to the prodorsal shield. Diagnoses for the genus Phytoptus and two provisional species groups within the genus are included.

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The Canadian Entomologist , Volume 109 , Issue 8 , August 1977 , pp. 1097 - 1102
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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1977

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