We describe and illustrate herein one new genus and eighteen new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) collected in northeast China. They are: Shevtchenkella huzhongiensis sp. nov. on Ulmus davidiana Planch. var. japonica (Sarg. ex Rehder) Nakai (Ulmaceae), Shevtchenkella jingboicus sp. nov. on Acer sp. (Aceraceae), Calepitrimerus flexuosus sp. nov. on Spiraea flexuosa Fisch. ex Cambess...

This is the second part of a survey mite lifespans initiated last year (Zhang & Fan 2021). series was launched to collect information on lifespan and related data across taxa, with aim stimulate more research both patterns mechanisms aging The first covered other life history for Oribatida, Winterschmidtiidae, Eriophyoidea, Tydeidae, Anystidae, Cheyletidae Blattisociidae provides surveys th...

Summary In May 2020, populations of Eriophyid mites were detected on tree heaven , Ailanthus altissima Mill., in a recreative park the city Colombes, near Paris, and later August September four locations, Southern France. Morphological examination supplemented with sequencing data for cytochrome c oxidase subunit I ( COI ) assigned all collected to single species, Aculus mosoniensis (Ripka) (Ac...

The subclass Acari (mites and ticks) comprises two super-orders: Acariformes and Parasitiformes. Most species of the Parasitiformes known retained the ancestral pattern of mitochondrial (mt) gene arrangement of arthropods, and their mt tRNAs have the typical cloverleaf structure. All of the species of the Acariformes known, however, have rearranged mt genomes and truncated mt tRNAs. We sequence...