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Material examined
Taxonomy
Distribution
Taxonomy Changes
Diagnosis
Hosts
Similar Taxa
Biology
References
Notes
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Fig. 1. Eotetranychus lomandrae - adult female habitus.

Fig. 2. Eo. lomandrae - adult female habitus.

Fig. 3. Eo. lomandrae - adult female, posterior dorsum.

Fig. 6. Eo. lomandrae - adult female, tarsus IV.

Fig. 5. Eo. lomandrae - adult female, tarsus III.

Fig. 4. Eo. lomandrae - adult female, tarsus I.

Fig. 7. Eotetranychus lomandrae - adult male habitus.

Fig. 8. Eo. lomandrae - adult male, tarsus I - arrow indicates empodium.

Fig. 9. Eo. lomandrae - adult male, gnathosoma - arrow indicates peritreme tip.

Fig. 10. Eo. lomandrae adult male holotype - detail of aedeagus, with and without associated structures.

Fig. 11. Eo. lomandrae - adult male, different views of aedeagus.

Eotetranychus lomandrae Davis 1968

Material examined

types; non-types

Taxonomy

Subfamily Tetranychinae

Tribe Tetranychini

Distribution

*Australia: south eastern Queensland

Taxonomy Changes

None

Diagnosis

Female (Figs 1,2,3)

Male (Fig. 7) as per female plus:

Hosts

Lomandra laxa, *L. longifolia (Dasypogonaceae)

Similar Taxa

Eotetranychus lomandrae is similar to E. hudsoni Miller 1966 but differs in the very much longer aedeagus, in addition to some leg chaetotaxy.

In addition, Eotetranychus lomandrae is close to E. steganus Pritchard & Baker in the shape of the aedeagus, but differs in various details of the leg chaetotaxy especially of tarsi I and II (Davis 1968b). 

Biology

 

References

*Davis, J.J. (1968b)  Studies of Queensland Tetranychidae. 4. Eotetranychus lomandrae sp. n.  A spider mite found on matrushes.  Queensland Journal of Agriculture and Animal Sciences 25: 69-72

Miller, L.W. (1966)  The tetranychid mites of Tasmania.  Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 100: 53-76

Notes

Eotetranychus lomandrae is close to E. hudsoni which was described from Lomandra longifolia one of the hosts of E. lomandrae from Tasmania (Miller 1966); however they differ in the shape of the aedeagus and leg chaetotaxy.  Eotetranychus hudsoni also occurs in Queensland with E. lomandrae on L. longifolia .