''Phytoptus'' is a genus of
mite
Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods) of two large orders, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari. However, most recent genetic analyses do not recover the two as eac ...
s in the family
Phytoptidae.
Taxonomy
As of February 2024, ''Phytoptus'' has three synonyms, ''Calycophthora''
Amerling, 1862, ''Phylloptus''
Amerling, 1858, and ''Phytocoptella''
Newkirk & Keifer, 1971, and there are the following 35 species in the genus:
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Phytoptus abnormis''
Garman, 1883
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Phytoptus adenostomae''
Keifer, 1976
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Phytoptus alchemillae''
Jočić et al., 2011
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Phytoptus aquatilis''
Roivainen, 1950
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Phytoptus atherodes''
Chetverikov, 2011
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Phytoptus avellanae
''Phytoptus avellanae'' is an acarine gall-mite species inducing big bud galls of up to across, sometimes slightly open, on the buds of hazel (''Corylus avellana'') and on filbert (''Corylus maxima''). Synonyms include ''Phytocoptella avellanae' ...
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Nalepa, 1889
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Phytoptus breyniae''
Mohanasundaram, 1981
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Phytoptus bursarius''
(Nalepa, 1918)
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Phytoptus cailloli''
(Cotte, 1924)
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Phytoptus caricis''
(Lehtola, 1940)
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Phytoptus chamaebatiae''
(Keifer, 1975)
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Phytoptus coryli''
Frauenfeld, 1865
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Phytoptus cylindricus''
Roivainen, 1951
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Phytoptus dehesae''
Roivainen, 1953
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Phytoptus eletariae''
Mohanasundaram, 1981
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Phytoptus erinotes''
(Nalepa, 1918)
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Phytoptus eupadi''
Newkirk, 1984
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Phytoptus formosanus''
Wang & Huang, 2011
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Phytoptus hedericola''
Keifer, 1943
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Phytoptus hirtae''
Roivainen, 1950
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Phytoptus lateannulatus''
Schultze, 1918
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Phytoptus liroi''
Roivainen, 1947
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Phytoptus maritimus''
Roivainen, 1950
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Phytoptus montanus''
Keifer, 1954
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Phytoptus monthalensis''
Smith-Meyer, 1991
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Phytoptus nalepi''
Zaher & Abou-Awad, 1979
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Phytoptus nervalis''
Nalepa, 1918
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Phytoptus niloticus''
Abou-Awad, 1981
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Phytoptus piceae''
Roivainen, 1951
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Phytoptus rigidus''
Roivainen, 1950
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Phytoptus rosae''
Mohanasundaram, 1981
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Phytoptus stenoporus''
(Nalepa, 1918)
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Phytoptus swalesi''
Keifer, 1966
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Phytoptus swazilandicus''
Smith-Meyer, 1991
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Phytoptus tetratrichus''
(Nalepa, 1891)
References
External links
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Trombidiformes
{{Trombidiformes-stub