| abstract | This paper describes two new species of the subfamily Phyllocoptinae in the family Eriophyidae. All the type specimen are deposited in the Department of Biology, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
Aculops suzhouensis, sp.nov. (figs. 1-5)
Female: This new species was found as a pest on the leaf or fruit of orange. It is similar to Aculops pelekassi (Keifer,1959), but can be distinguished from the latter by the following characters: body more robust, a short transverse line running clearly across the shield between anterior part of admedian line near by the anterior lobe of process, the 1st ventral seta especially long and reaching 82.8µ, and the microtubercules of the last 6 sternites on the thanosome long and thin and regularly arranged.
Male: Unknown.
Holotype ♀ and paratypes 4♀♀, collected on Citrus sp., on July 25, 1979 from Suzhou (Dongshan town), Jiangsu, China.
Abacarus fujianensis, sp.nov. (figs. 6-12)
Female: The mites feed on the inner surface of sugarcane leaf sheath, leaving spots about 1-2 cm in diameter on both surface of the leaf sheath. This new species resembles Abacarus hystrix (Nal., 1944), but can be distingulshed from the latter by the, following characters: without median line, the central longitudinal wax-bearing ridges ending at the 28th tergite, and the tergites and sternites unequal in number, sternites more than tergites.
Male: Unknown.
Holotype ♀ and paratypes 3♀♀, collected on Saccharum officiarum, on July 24, 1979 from Putian County, Fujian, China. |