NEW DATA ON SPIDER MITES (PROSTIGMATA: TETRANYCHIDAE) FROM KYRGYZSTAN

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All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center, Bykovo, Moskovskaya Oblast, Russia

Acknowledgments:

This study was carried out as part of the advanced training courses within the framework of the 2019 cooperation agreement between the All- Russian Plant Quarantine Center and the Central Plant Quarantine Laboratory of the Plant Quarantine Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kyrgyzstan. 

The author is grateful to H. Muminjanov (FAO) and M. K. Mironova (VNIIKR) for providing the copy of Strunkova’s (1988) paper.

Annotation:

This paper provides a brief review of investigations of the spider mite fauna of Kyrgyzstan. 5 species—Eotetranychus libocedri, Eo. tiliarum, Eo. thujae, Oligonychus karamatus and O. lagodechii—were recorded from Kyrgyzstan for the first time. In addition, the presence of O. piceae in the studied region has been confirmed. Thus, the tetranychids fauna of Kyrgyzstan consists of 58 species.

DOI: 10.21684/0132-8077-2023-31-2-271-273

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