Vittacus humuli Xue, Song & Hong, 2005

Xue, Xiao-Feng, Han, Xiao, Song, Zi-Wei & Hong, Xiao-Yue, 2012, Eriophyoid mite fauna of Shaanxi Province, China, with descriptions of five new species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) 3292, Zootaxa 3292 (1), pp. 1-71 : 59

Vittacus humuli Xue, Song & Hong, 2005

Vittacus humuli Xue, Song & Hong, 2005: 2–5 .

Vittacus humuli ; Song et al., 2008: 31 .

Type material. 3 females and 2 males (slide number NJAUAcariEri211), from Humulus scandens (Lour.) Merr. (Moraceae) , Louguantai , Zhouzhi County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°03'54' N, 108°19'22' E, elevation 500m, 31 August 2004, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zi-Wei Song.

Material examined. 5 females and 1 male (slide number NJAUAcariEri430), from Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. (Cannabaceae) , Wen County, Gansu Province, P. R. China, 32°56'43' N, 104°40'27' E, elevation 950m, 8 September 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song.

New material. 6 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri361), from Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. (Cannabaceae) , Maoping town, Yang County, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 33°31'08' N, 107°40'14' E, elevation 898m, 11 August 2005, coll. Zi-Wei Song and Xiao-Feng Xue; 8 females (slide number NJAUAcariEri407), from Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. (Cannabaceae) , Cuihua Mountain, Xi' an City, Shaanxi Province, P. R. China, 34°59'40' N, 109°00'04' E, elevation 901m, 15 August 2005, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue & Zi-Wei Song; 3 females and 1 male (slide number NJAUAcariEriS3), from Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. (Cannabaceae) , Baohua Mountain, Jurong City, Jiangsu Province, P. R. China, 32°08'41' N, 119°05'19' E, elevation 53m, 27 August 2008, coll. Xiao-Feng Xue and Zhen Wang.

Host. Humulus japonicus Siebold & Zucc. (Cannabaceae) .

Relation to host. Vagrant.

Distribution. China (Gansu, Jiangsu, Shaanxi).