Material examined

not examined

Taxonomy

Subfamily Tetranychinae

Tribe Eurytetranychini

Distribution

*Australia, Egypt, Sudan

Taxonomy Changes

Tetranychus pantopus Berlese 1910

Eutetranychus pantopus (Berlese) Pritchard & Baker 1955

Diagnosis

Female

• dorsal central setae (c1, d1, e1, f1) relatively long and acutely tapered
• dorsal setae on small tubercles

Hosts

Albizia lebbeck (Mimosaceae), Azadirachta indica (Meliaceae), Citrus spp. (Rutaceae), *Ficus sp. (Moraceae), Ricinis communis (Euphorbiaceae)

References

*Berlese, A. (1910)  Lista di nuove specie e nuove generi di acari.  Redia 6: 242-271

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

Notes

This species is an enigma.  The type specimens consist of two males collected from fig in Moreton Bay, and were identified by Berlese (1910).  Pritchard & Baker (1955) and Baker & Pritchard (1960) considered these two males to be similar enough to Sayed's (1946) drawings of the male of Anychus latus that they considered A. latus to be a misidentification of E. pantopus.  This was accepted by Meyer (1974).  However, until females of this species are found, the identity of this species will remain unresolved.