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Two new species and a new record of the genus Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Saudi Arabia
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Two new species and a new record of the genus Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Saudi Arabia

Muhammad Kamran, Hafiz Muhammad Saqib Mushtaq and Fahad Jaber Alatawi
Systematic and Applied Acarology, Vol.28(1), pp.20-28
04/01/2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.28.1.3

Abstract

Acari morphology predatory mites species identification taxonomy
This paper describes two new species of predatory mites belonging to the genus Paragigagnathus Amitai & Grinberg (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiisae), namely Paragigagnathus neodesertorum sp. nov. from Acacia raddiana L. (Fabaceae), and, P. jazanensis sp. nov. from Tamarix sp. (Tamaricaceae). Also, P. amantis (Chaudhri, Akbar & Rasool, 1979) is a new species record for Saudi Arabia, reported from Tamarix sp.

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