Four New Species of Larval Charletonia and Leptus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae), with a Checklist of the Two Genera and Their Hosts from China

Si-Yuan Xu; Tian-Ci Yi; Jian-Jun Guo; Dao-Chao Jin

doi:10.3390/insects13121154

Four New Species of Larval Charletonia and Leptus (Acari: Trombidiformes: Erythraeidae), with a Checklist of the Two Genera and Their Hosts from China

Insects. 2022 Dec 14;13(12):1154. doi: 10.3390/insects13121154.

Authors

Si-Yuan Xu^{1

2

3}, Tian-Ci Yi^{1

2

3}, Jian-Jun Guo^{1

2

3}, Dao-Chao Jin^{1

2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Entomology, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China.
² The Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Pest Management of Mountainous Region, Guiyang 550025, China.
³ The Scientific Observing and Experimental Station of Crop Pest in Guiyang, Ministry of Agriculture P. R. China, Guiyang 550025, China.

Abstract

Four new species, Charletonia rectangia Xu and Jin sp. nov., Leptus (Leptus) bomiensis Xu and Jin sp. nov., Leptus (Leptus) longisolenidionus Xu and Jin sp. nov., and Leptus (Leptus) striatus Xu and Jin sp. nov. are described and illustrated based on larvae. All four new species are from biodiversity hotspots, L. (L.) bomiensissp. nov. from the Eastern Himalayas biodiversity hotspot, while the other three species from the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot.

Keywords: Callidosomatinae; Leptinae; biodiversity hotspot; ectoparasite; host.

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