Identify all 38 known genera of flat mites from around the world.
Identify commonly intercepted species of Brevipalpus.
Identify all known and some new species of Raoiella.
Identify the three most commonly intercepted species of Cenopalpus.
Banks
Tenuipalpus californicus - original designation
Hystripalpus californicus - Mitrofanov & Strunkova (1979)
B. browningi Baker 1949:382 (Palestine) [syn. Pritchard and Baker 1958]
B. confusus Baker 1949:380 (USA - MD) [syn. Pritchard and Baker 1958]
B. woglumi McGregor 1949:19 (USA - CA) [syn. Pritchard and Baker 1951]
Tenuipalpus australis Tucker 1926:3 (South Africa, Zimbabwe) [syn. Pritchard and Baker 1958]
T. vitis Womersley 1940:241 (Australia) [syn. Pritchard and Baker 1958]
B. huananis Ma & Yuan
B. junicus Ma & Yuan
B. californicus species group (sensu Baker & Tuttle 1987) = f2 present; tarsus II with 2 solenidia; palp 4-segmented with 3 distal setae; dorsal central setae (c1, d1, e1) different in shape to dorsal lateral setae (c3, d3, e3)
see Brevipalpus californicus group species A, B, C
Australia, Ecuador, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, Palestine, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, USA (*CA, HI, MD, TX)
* - holotype
Annonaceae (Chirimoya sp.); Arecaceae (coconut Cocos nucifera); Bignoniaceae (Begonia sp.); Convolvulaceae (sweet potato Ipomoea batatas); Lauraceae (avocado Persea americana); Geraniaceae (Geranium sp.); Orchidaceae (Aerangis sp., Dendrobium sp., Renanthera monachica); Pinaceae (Abies sp.); Rutaceae (Choisya ternata, Citrus spp., C. aurantifolia, C. limon, C. nobilis var. deliciosa, C. reticulata, C. x paradisi, C. sinensis*, C. tangerina, orange*); Theaceae (tea Camellia sinensis)
* - holotype
Mites identified as Brevipalpus californicus sensu lato were found to be strongly associated with the nuclear citrus leprosis viruses, citrus leprosis virus N (CiLV-N) and citrus necrotic spot virus (CiNSV) (Roy et al. 2015).
Roy, A., Hartung, J.S., Schneider, W.L., Shao, J., León, M.G., Melzer, M.J., Beard, J.J., Otero-Colina, G., Bauchan, G.R., Ochoa, R. & Brlansky, R.H. (2015) Role bending: complex relationships between viruses, hosts and vectors related to citrus leprosies, an emerging disease. Phytopathology (in press).
Baker (1949); *Banks (1904); McGregor (1949); Mesa et al. (2009); Mitrofanov & Strunkova (1979); Tucker (1926); Womersley (1940)
* - original description