Oligonychus pongami Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham, 2014

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

14. Oligonychus pongami Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham, 2014

Oligonychus pongami Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham, 2014: 4113-4117.

Host and distribution.

Pongamia glabra ( Fabaceae ), Vitis vinifera ( Vitaceae ); Coimbatore and Tamil Nadu, India.

Remarks.

The description of Oligonychus pongami Sivakumar & Kunchithapatham was based on just one morphological character, that the female differs from O. biharensis by having longitudinal striations between e1-e1 vs. transverse in the later. There are numerous species in the genus Oligonychus which have longitudinal striation between setae e1-e1. No details of the male were provided, and the taxonomic identity of O. pongami is doubtful until detailed descriptions of the male and female type specimens are provided.