Material examined

types; non-types

Taxonomy

Subfamily Tetranychinae

Tribe Tetranychini

Distribution

*Australia - southern Western Australia

Anatetranychus is an Australian endemic genus.

Taxonomy Changes

Anatetranychus hakea Womersley 1940

Neotetranychus hakea (Womersley) Pritchard & Baker 1955

Anatetranychus hakea Womersley, Wainstein 1960

Diagnosis

Female

• body broadly oval, not very convex
• dorsal opisthosomal striae transverse, dotted
• dorsal setae thick, pointed, finely barbed, subequal in length
• empodia I-IV = long slender curved claw, almost as long as lateral tenent hairs
• tarsus I with two pairs of associated setae
• tarsus II without associated or duplex setae
• solenidion of associated setae short, only slightly longer than tactile companion seta
• legs slender, not longer than body 
• peritreme ending in short hook
• palp with spinneret elongate, 5-6 times as long as wide
• reddish

Male unknown

Hosts

*Hakea spp. (Proteaceae)

Similar Taxa

genus Eurytetranychus Oudemans - Anatetranychus is readily distinguished from Eurytetranychus by the long empodial claw, which is tiny in the latter.

genus Synonychus Miller - Anatetranychus has much longer and differently proportioned legs, longer and more slender empodial claws, and two pairs of associated setae on tarsus I.

References

Pritchard, A.E. and Baker, E.W. (1955)  A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae.  Pacific Coast Entomology Society Memoirs 2: 1-472

Wainstein, B.A. (1960)  Tetranychoid mites of Kazakhstan (with revision of the family).  Kazakh. Akad. Sel'sk. Nauk. Nauch. Issled. Inst. Zashch. Rast. Tr. 5: 1-276

*Womersley, H. (1940)  Studies in Australian Acarina, Tetranychidae and Trichadenidae.  Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 64: 233-265

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