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UNUSUAL NEW SPECIES OF TRISETACUS (PROSTIGMATA: ERIOPHYOIDEA) ASSOCIATED WITH CUPRESSACEAE IN NORTH AMERICA

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Ian M. Smith
Affiliation:
Biosystematics Research Institute, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0C6

Abstract

Adults of two new species of Trisetacus infesting foliage of Cupressaceae are described, T. distinctus from eastern white cedar based on females and males, and T. macrocarpae from Monterey cypress based on females The possible significance of host plant sympatry of morphological species of Trisetacus is discussed briefly.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1978

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