Tetranychinae

Oriental red mites Eutetranychus orientalis, from here.

Belongs within: Tetranychoidea.
Contains: Eotetranychus, Tetranychus, Oligonychus.

The Tetranychinae are a group of spider mites characterised by the absence of tenent hairs on the empodium, or the absence of the empodium itself (Baker & Tuttle 1972). Within tetranychines, closely associated duplex setae are present on the first two leg tarsi of the Tetranychini and Tenuipalpoidini but these setae are often absent or disassociated in the Eurytetranychini. In Tenuipalpoidini, seta D₄ is in a marginal position on the body or absent; this seta is in a more typical, more medial position in Tetranychini. In most genera of Tetranychinae, females possess two pairs of anal setae and males possess four pairs of genitoanal setae, but one less pair of these setae is present in each sex of the genera Aponychus and Palmanychus (Baker & Tuttle 1972). Members of the genus Eutetranychus have the empodium reduced to a tiny rounded protuberance (Baker & Pritchard 1960). The oriental red mite or citrus brown mite Eutetranychus orientalis feeds on a wide range of host plant species and is a major pest on citrus.

<==Tetranychinae
    |--Tenuipalpoides Reck & Bagdasarian 1955 [Tenuipalpoidini] BT72
    |    |--*T. zizyphus Reck & Bagdasarian 1955 BT72
    |    `--T. dorychaeta Pritchard & Baker 1955 BT72
    |--Eurytetranychini BT72
    |    |--Eurytetranychus buxi GB91
    |    |--Eotetranychus BT72
    |    |--Palmanychus Baker & Tuttle 1972 BT72
    |    |    `--*P. steganus (Pritchard & Baker 1955) [=Eotetranychus steganus] BT72
    |    |--Aponychus Rimando 1966 BT72
    |    |    `--A. corpuzae S91
    |    `--Eutetranychus Banks 1917 BT72
    |         |--*E. banksi (McGregor 1914) [=Tetranychus banksi, Neotetranychus (*Eutetranychus) banksi] BT72
    |         |--E. acaciae Miller 1966 H98
    |         |--E. africanus (Tucker 1926) [=Anychus africanus] BP60
    |         |--E. anneckei YM91
    |         |--E. apheles Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
    |         |--E. bredini Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
    |         |--E. clastus Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
    |         |--E. cratis Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
    |         |--E. enodes Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
    |         |--E. hirsti CBM99
    |         |--E. orientalis (Klein 1936) H98 (see below for synonymy)
    |         |--E. pantopus (Berlese 1910) [=Tetranychus pantopus] H98
    |         `--E. sudanicus BY99
    `--Tetranychini BT72
         |  i. s.: Heteronychus hirtus CF77
         |         Schizotetranychus Träghårdh 1915 WP99, H98 [incl. Stigmaeopsis WL09]
         |           |--S. andropogoni G01
         |           |--S. asparagi AL37
         |           |--S. avetjanae BP60
         |           |--S. baltazarae C-R02
         |           |--S. cajani G01
         |           |--S. celarius (Banks 1917) [=Stigmaeopsis celarius] H98
         |           |--S. cercidiphylli S91
         |           |--S. cornus Pritchard & Baker 1955 SL71
         |           |--S. eremophilus W87
         |           |--S. gahniae Davis 1969 H98
         |           |--S. gausus Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
         |           |--S. hindustanicus G91
         |           |--S. kaspari Manson 1967 SL71
         |           |--S. leguminosus S91
         |           |--S. levinensis Manson 1967 SL71
         |           |--S. longus WP99
         |           |--S. miscanthi WP99
         |           |--S. nanjingensis H07
         |           |--S. oryzae MF07
         |           |--S. reticulatus Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
         |           |--S. rhodanus Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
         |           |--S. russeus Davis 1969 H98
         |           |--S. saccharum MF07
         |           |--S. sacrales Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
         |           |--S. sagatus Davis 1969 H98
         |           |--S. schizopus (Zacher 1913) [=Tetranychus schizopus] SB63
         |           |--S. spiculus Baker & Pritchard 1960 BP60
         |           `--S. spireafolia BP60
         |--+--‘Oligonychus’ gossypii (Zacher 1921) NG96, BP60 [=Paratetranychus gossypii BP60]
         |  `--+--Tetranychus NG96
         |     `--Amphitetranychus Oudemans 1931 NG96
         |          `--A. viennensis (Zacher 1920) NG96, H23 [=Tetranychus viennensis NG96]
         `--+--Panonychus Yokoyama 1929 NG96, H98
            |    |--P. akitanus S91
            |    |--P. bambusicola GKO96
            |    |--P. citri (McGregor 1916) [=Tetranychus citri, Metatetranychus citri] H98
            |    |--P. elongatus Manson 1963 H98
            |    |--P. mori WL09
            |    |--P. thelytokus WL09
            |    `--P. ulmi (Koch 1836) [=Tetranychus ulmi, Metatetranychus ulmi] H98
            `--+--Oligonychus NG96
               `--Mononychellus NG96
                    |--M. caribbeanae GB91
                    |--M. erytrinae QA91
                    |--M. estradai AP80
                    |--M. planki MF07
                    `--M. tanajoa (Bondar 1938) BY99 (see below for synonymy)

Eutetranychus orientalis (Klein 1936) H98 [=Anychus orientalis H98; incl. E. monodi André 1954 BP60, A. ricini Rahman & Sapra 1940 BP60]

Mononychellus tanajoa (Bondar 1938) BY99 [=Tetranychus tanajoa BY99; incl. M. estradai GB91, M. progressivus Doreste 1981 M99]

*Type species of generic name indicated

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Last updated: 23 June 2022.