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Occurrence of two acarivorous species of the genus Feltiella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Okinawa, southern Japan, and redescription of F. acarivora (Zehntner)

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Based on morphological features and molecular information, we record the occurrence of two acarivorous species of the genus Feltiella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) on some islands of Okinawa Prefecture, southern Japan. They are Feltiella acarivora (Zehntner), which is new to Japan, and Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot). F. acarivora is redescribed because the original description was incomplete. Feltiella acarivora was distinguished from F. acarisuga by having the following characteristics of male terminalia: hypoproct a little shorter than aedeagus, slightly tapering to a blunt apex with an apical ligule and gonocoxite with a hairy mediobasal lobe. For each species, we provide information on its geographic distribution, possible prey mites, and plant species on which the mites and Feltiella larvae or pupae were found. Through our surveys, we observed F. acarivora coexisting with at least eight species of tetranychid mites on various plant species, including fruit trees and vegetable crops. These observations suggest that F. acarivora and F. acarisuga contribute to the control of pest tetranychid mites in Okinawa.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Dr. R.J. Gagné (Systematic Entomology Laboratory, Plant Science Institute, USDA, USA, retired) and Dr. K.M. Harris (former Director of the International Institute of Entomology, UK, retired) for their comments on an early draft. The original description of F. acarivora written in Dutch (Zehntner 1901) was translated into English by Dr. W.C. Nijveldt (former staff member of IPO, Wageningen, The Netherlands, retired), to whom we are indebted. We are grateful to workers at the Okinawa Prefectural Plant Protection Center, Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Development Center, Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, and Ryukyu Sankei Co., Ltd. for providing us with plant samples bearing tetranychid mites. Our thanks are also due to Prof. T. Gotoh (Ibaraki Univ.) for identifying tetranychid mites, Mr. K. Matsuo (Kyushu Univ.) for his information on parasitoid species that attack F. acarivora, and Dr. S. Kamitani (Kyushu Univ.) for taking multi-layer photographs of the male terminalia of F. acarivora.

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  1. Okinawa Prefectural Agricultural Research Center, Okinawa, 901-0336, Japan

    Tomoko Ganaha-Kikumura & Suguru Ohno

  2. Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 812-8581, Japan

    Junichi Yukawa

  3. Laboratory of System Ecology, Faculty of Agriculture, Saga University, Saga, 840-8502, Japan

    Makoto Tokuda

  4. Lowland Crops Research Division, NARO Western Region Agricultural Research Center, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, 721-8514, Japan

    Junichiro Abe

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Ganaha-Kikumura, T., Yukawa, J., Tokuda, M. et al. Occurrence of two acarivorous species of the genus Feltiella (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) in Okinawa, southern Japan, and redescription of F. acarivora (Zehntner). Appl Entomol Zool 47, 319–329 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13355-012-0122-x

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