Oligonychus kobachidzei (Reck, 1947)

Mushtaq, Hafiz Muhammad Saqib, Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, Kamran, Muhammad & Flechtmann, Carlos Holger Wenzel, 2021, The genus Oligonychus Berlese (Acari, Prostigmata, Tetranychidae): taxonomic assessment and a key to subgenera, species groups, and subgroups, ZooKeys 1079, pp. 89-127 : 89

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1079.75175

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:E3D873CB-7039-478D-8986-08E461087E98

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1EAD9C23-BAE2-53F9-88B7-55EFE85BC37C

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scientific name

Oligonychus kobachidzei (Reck, 1947)
status

 

3. Oligonychus kobachidzei (Reck, 1947) View in CoL

Paratetranychus kobachidzei Reck, 1947: 472.

Host and distribution.

Corylus avellana ( Betulaceae ), Juglans regia ( Juglandaceae ), Platanus occidentalis , P. orientalis ( Platanaceae ) and Ulmus sp. ( Ulmaceae ); Armenia, Azerbaijan and, Georgia.

Remarks.

Oligonychus kobachidzei (Reck) was described from male and female specimens from type host Platanus occidentalis and type locality Georgia; however, the description lacked the key characters necessary for species confirmation ( Reck 1947). Moreover, Reck (1947) did not specifically compare it with any other closely related Oligonychus species. Although Bagdasarian (1957) re-described the species from other hosts ( Juglans regia and Ulmus sp.) and locality (Armenia), the description still lacked details of the important morphological characters of both sexes. Further, it seems to us, based on the published literature that Bagdasarian (1957) did not observe the types of O. kobachidzei , as it necessary for confirming the taxonomic identity of Armenian specimens, when original description of O. kobachidzei was poor. Also, the illustration of aedeagus ( Bagdasarian 1957) was not clear and did not appear to be in a completely lateral position. The identity of O. kobachidzei and its redescription is doubtful until the male and female are comprehensively described from the type host and locality.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

Family

Tetranychidae

SubFamily

Tetranychinae

Tribe

Tetranychini

Genus

Oligonychus

SubGenus

Oligonychus

Loc

Oligonychus kobachidzei (Reck, 1947)

Mushtaq, Hafiz Muhammad Saqib, Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, Kamran, Muhammad & Flechtmann, Carlos Holger Wenzel 2021
2021
Loc

Paratetranychus kobachidzei

Reck 1947
1947