Oligonychus changi Tseng 1980

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

10. Oligonychus changi Tseng 1980

Oligonychus changi Tseng, 1980: 152.

Host and distribution.

Pinus sp. ( Pinaceae ); Taiwan

Remarks.

Oligonychus changi Tseng was poorly described from females only, and details of the male were absent in both the original ( Tseng 1980) and subsequent descriptions ( Tseng 1990; Lo and Ho 1989). The author did not specifically compare it with any other closely related species. However, O. changi females were distinguished from the females of both O. subtropicus (another questionable species reported in same paper; described from Taiwan on Juniperus chinensis , Cupressaceae ) and O. perditus (described from Japan on Juniperus communis ) in a diagnostic key, using the pattern of dorsal hysterosomal striae ( Tseng 1980, 1990). The species identity of O. changi will be clear after collecting and describing the male from the type host and locality.