Mites Inhabiting Manure and Dunghills in Assiut Governorate, with Annotated Checklist of Mite Species Existing in Husbandry Farms in Egypt

Abo-Elmaged, Tarek Mohamed; Abdel-Aziz, Rahma M.; Eraky, Sayed A.

doi:10.21608/eajbsz.2020.106558

Mites Inhabiting Manure and Dunghills in Assiut Governorate, with Annotated Checklist of Mite Species Existing in Husbandry Farms in Egypt

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

² Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526 Egypt.

³ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526 Egypt

10.21608/eajbsz.2020.106558

Abstract

The present survey of mite species inhabiting organic manure in different animal-sheds (i.e., buffalo, cow, sheep, goats), in both farms, the experimental farm of the Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University and the production farm of El-Fateh district, Data showed that there were 28 mite species pertaining to 20 genera of 12 families in three mite orders (Mesostigmata, Astigmata, Trombidiformes). Mesostigmata represented by 19 species (8 families); Astigmata (Acarididia), represented by 8 species (2 families) and Trombidiformes represented by two species belonging to two families. Both mite species of the families Macrochelidae Vithzthum, 1930, and Parasitidae Oudemans, 1901 were recorded in high densities. While scarce numbers of Tarsonemidae Canestrini & Fanzago, 1876 were observed. The annotated checklist reported 150 mite species belonging to 67 genera of 26 families.

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