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New Data on the Fauna of Spider Mites (Acari, Tetranychidae) from Kazakhstan

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Four species of Tetranychidae are recorded for the first time from Kazakhstan: Eurytetranychus admes Pritchard et Baker, 1955, Eotetranychus thujae (McGregor, 1950), Oligonychus karamatus (Ehara, 1956), and Schizotetranychus schizopus (Zacher, 1913). The characters differentiating two morphologically similar species, the autochthonous Eurytetranychus furcisetus Wainstein, 1956 and the alien Eu. admes, are discussed. The latter species is recorded for the first time on a new host plant, Picea schrenkiana Fisch. et C.A. Mey. The presence of Oligonychus piceae (Reck, 1953) in the Trans-Ili Alatau (Southeastern Kazakhstan) is confirmed; the species was apparently introduced there together with Pinus sylvestris L.

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  1. B.A. Wainstein graduated from the Department of Entomology of Moscow State University (1936–1941), fought in the Great Patriotic War, and then worked at the Institute for Biology of Reservoirs, the USSR Academy of Sciences (now Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences); Doctor of Biology (1960). Apart from Tetranychoidea, he studied general acarology and various other acarine taxa: Hydrachnidiae, Phytoseiidae, etc.

  2. Since 1958, Kazakh Research Institute of Plant Protection; now Kazakh Research Institute of Plant Protection and Quarantine, Almaty.

  3. I have not found this species in Kazakhstan, either.

  4. Eurytetranychus piceus remains to be further studied, since its description is very incomplete (Löyttyniemi, 1973). This species resembles Eu. furcisetus and differs well from Eu. admes in the shape of its dorsal setae and the thickened solenidion ω (and apparently in the split seta b) on the palpi. In Finland, Eu. piceus was found on introduced East Asian species of Picea (Löyttyniemi, 1973).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to M.K. Mironova and K.A. Astratian for their help during field research carried out within the framework of the cooperation agreement between the All-Russian Plant Quarantine Center and the Kazakh Research Institute of Plant Protection and Quarantine (Almaty), to Yu.I. Gninenko for the information shared, to S.A. Kurbatov for advice during manuscript preparation, and to M.B. Wainstein for providing biographical data on B.A. Wainstein.

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Kamayev, I.O. New Data on the Fauna of Spider Mites (Acari, Tetranychidae) from Kazakhstan. Entmol. Rev. 103, 1029–1034 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873823090105

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