TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Two new alien Eutetranychus mites (Prostigmata, Tetranychidae) for Madeira Island, Portugal
VL  - 63
IS  - 4
SP  - 1154
EP  - 1162
PY  - 2023
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Naves, Pedro
AU  - Aguiar, António Franquinho
AU  - Santos, Márcia
AU  - Nóbrega, Filomena
AU  - Varela, Ana Rita
AU  - Silva, Maria José
AU  - Migeon, Alain
AU  - Navia, Denise
AU  - Auger, Philippe
UR  - https://doi.org/10.24349/t82c-9sz9
DO  - 10.24349/t82c-9sz9
DA  - 2023-11-15
ET  - 2023-11-15
KW  - spider mite
KW  - integrative taxonomy
KW  - African red mite
KW  - Texas citrus mite
AB  - Two field surveys on agricultural and non-agricultural plants in Madeira Island, and examination of slides of the Laboratório de Qualidade Agrícola (LQA, Madeira) collection, disclosed two species belonging to the genus Eutetranychus: the Texas citrus mite Eutetranychus banksi, associated with Citrus x aurantium, Citrus limon, Citrus reticulata, Phaseolus vulgaris (new host record), Plumeria rubra and Ricinus communis, and the African red mite Eutetranychus africanus on Citrus medica (new host record), Carica papaya, Vitis vinifera and R. communis. Both species are new records for Madeira Island, and this is the first record of E. africanus for a European country. Molecular analysis (18S rRNA gene) of E. africanus confirmed morphological identification. This integrative approach of comparing morphological and molecular characters with validated references allowed us to reliably identify this species, which has repeatedly been misidentified in the past.
ER -