SUPPLEMENTARY DESCRIPTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL NOTES ON ERIOPHYID MITES (ACARI: ERIOPHYOIDEA) OF THE GENUS NOVOPHYTOPTUS ROIVAINEN, 1947

About authors:

Philipp E. Chetverikov,

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

S.I. Sukhareva, Biological Research Institute, St.Petersburg State University, Old Peterhof 198904, Russia

Acknowledgments:

We thank Drs. A. Khaustov and V. Mitrofanov (Department of Agroecology, Nikita Botanical Gardens, Yalta, Crimea), R. Petanoviæ (Faculty of Agriculture Belgrade-Zemune, Belgrade, Serbia),

C. H. W. Flechtmann (Departamento de Entomolo- gia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agricola, Universi- dade de Sao Paolo, Brazil) and A. Skoracka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) for send- ing some rare papers and loaning the comparative material. We are grateful to Drs. T. V. Egorova, G.J. Konechnaya and P. G. Efimov (Komarov Botan- ical Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia) for determi- nation of host plants. We also thank Mrs. T.G. Chetverikova and L.A. Chetverikova for their help in taking the material from Plesetsk, Yalta, and Dnepropetrovsk area.

Annotation:

A supplementary description and the observations on biology of N. rostratae Roivainen, 1947 are provided. Poorly known species, N. tauricus Mitrofanov, Sharonov et Sekerskaja, 1983 is redescribed.

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