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Systematic & Applied Acarology (2010) 15, 71–80.

Two new Epitrimerus Nalepa (Eriophyidae, Prostigmata) species from Brazil and further remarks on the immature stages of a few eriophyoid species

CARLOS H. W. FLECHTMANN

CNPq-Brazil Researcher, Universidade de São Paulo, ESALQ, Departamento de Entomologia e Acarologia, Caixa Postal, 9, 13418-900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brasil. E-mail: chwflech@esalq.usp.br

Abstract

Epitrimerus torus sp. nov., from Acalypha reptans SN. (Euphorbiaceae) and E. angustisternalis sp. nov. from Bougainvillea spectabilis Willd. (Nyctaginaceae) are described and figured. Immature stages of the two new species and of seven other Eriophyoidea were studied and only in E. angustisternalis sp. nov. a reliable criterion distinguishing them was observed, but different from the one previously detected in Rhombacus eucalypti Ghosh & Chakrabarti.

 

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Accepted by Z.-Q. Zhang: 24 Feb 2010; published 31 Mar. 2010