Description of a new species of Acotyledon Oudemans (Acari: Acaridae) feeding on eggs of the Sitotroga cerealella (Olivier) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae), with a method for determining sex in deutonymphal stages

Abstract

A new species, Acotyledon hookisetoses sp. nov. (Acari: Acaridae), collected from the stock colony of Sitotroga cerealella reared on wheat grains, is described, and illustrated from adults and deutonymphs. Sex-specific morphological differences at the deutonymphal stage are reported and discussed.