A review of some species of the families Allochaetophoridae, Linotetranidae and Tuckerellidae (Acari : Tetranychoidea)

Mites on Plants

“…The family was proposed in 1959 to accommodate one aberrant tetranychoid nymph from grass in California and for nearly 40 years that was the only known representative of the family. A full developmental sequence of a second species from Africa (also associated with grasses) has now been described (Meyer and Ueckermann 1997 ).…”

“…Most tenuipalpid species, however, seem to be host specifi c. More than 600 species have been described in 22 genera (Meyer 1979 ;Evans et al 1993 ) and, given the diversity of undescribed forms in Australia, this must be a minor component of the true diversity of the group. The remaining three families of tetranychoid mites, Tuckerellidae, Linotetranidae and Allochaetophoridae, are rarely important agriculturally and account for less than 30 described species in fi ve genera (Meyer and Ueckermann 1997 ). Linotetranid mites ( Linotetranus , Afrolinotus , and Anoplopalpus ) are associated with soil collected among grasses and are unique among the tetranychoids in completely lacking eyes.…”

Tuckerella filipina,a new species of tuckerellidae (Acari) from the Philippines

“…Twenty-three species have been described from all zoogeographic regions of the world, of which half have type localities from the Oriental Region. Smith Meyer and Ueckermann (1997)recently published a key to these species. Rimando (1962) reported T. ornata (Tucker, 1926), one of the more widely distributed species of the genus, from the Philippines, and Corpuz-Raros (1989) recorded two others, namely, T. knorri Baker and Tuttle, 1975 and T. flabellifera Miller, 1964.…”

Effectiveness of the postponed isolation (post-frozen isolation) method for PCR-quality Sarcoptes mite gDNA

“…The family Tuckerellidae is one of five families within the superfamily Tetranychoidea that also includes the spider mites (Tetranychidae), false spider mites (Tenuipalpidae), Allochaetophoridae and Linotetranidae (Smith Meyer and Ueckermann 1997). Mites of these five families are obligatively phytophagous.…”

“…The family Tuckerellidae consists of a single genus, Tuckerella Womersley, and a key to species was provided by Smith Meyer and Ueckermann (1997). Twenty-eight species were reported by Zhang et al (2011) whereas 29 species were listed by Beard and Ochoa (2010).…”