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MITE PATHOGENS IN IPM<br />

267<br />

Table 2 Continued<br />

Tarichium<br />

svalbardense<br />

Dinychus carinatus<br />

Pergamasus sp.<br />

Veigaia sp.<br />

Prodinychidae<br />

Parasitidae<br />

Veigaiidae<br />

Bałazy et al. (1987)<br />

Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Bałazy et al., 1987<br />

Tarichium<br />

obtusoangulatum<br />

Uropoda minima Uropodidae Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Tarichium pusillum Pergamasus sp. Parasitidae Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Tarichium<br />

sphaericum<br />

Trachyuropoda<br />

coccinea<br />

Trachyuropodidae<br />

Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Tarichium<br />

subglobosum<br />

Pergamasus sp.<br />

Uropoda minima<br />

Parasitidae<br />

Uropodidae<br />

Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Tarichium<br />

tenuisculpturatum<br />

Pergamasus sp. Parasitidae Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1984)<br />

Tarichium<br />

uropodinis<br />

Trachyuropoda<br />

coccinea<br />

Trachyuropodidae<br />

Bałazy <strong>and</strong> Wiśniewski<br />

(1982)<br />

Tarichium<br />

verruculosum<br />

Celaenopsis sp.<br />

Unidentified<br />

Celaenopsidae<br />

Galumnidae<br />

Bałazy et al. (1987)<br />

4.1.2. Natural Entomophthoraceous Infections<br />

The first record of an entomophthoralean fungus infection in spider mites was<br />

observed <strong>by</strong> Fisher (1951) who noted adult mortality from 32 to 95% in populations<br />

of the citrus red mite Panonychus citri. The fungus was in particular prevalent<br />

during late summer <strong>and</strong> early autumn throughout the Florida peninsula. Weiser <strong>and</strong><br />

Muma (1966) isolated the fungus later from the Texas citrus mite Eutetranychus<br />

banksi <strong>and</strong> described it as Entomophthora floridana. The fungus has since been<br />

reported from several other spider mites species: For example, it was observed in<br />

Tetranychus tumidis on cotton in the humid subtropical regions of Florida (Saba,<br />

1971), in T. evansi on tomato crops in Brazil (Humber et al., 1981), in T. ludeni<br />

on bean in India (Ramaseshiah, 1971), in Oligonychus hondoensis on cedar in<br />

Japan (Nemoto & Aoki, 1975) <strong>and</strong> in T. urticae on field corn in North Carolina,<br />

USA (Br<strong>and</strong>enburg & Kennedy, 1982). The fungus has also been reported in<br />

Pol<strong>and</strong> on the twospotted spider mite T. urticae <strong>and</strong> on Bryobia sp. (Mieţkiewski<br />

et al., 1993).<br />

Keller <strong>and</strong> Wuest (1983) noted infections <strong>by</strong> Neozygites adjarica in T. urticae<br />

on bean in Switzerl<strong>and</strong>, but later investigations showed that this fungus is identical<br />

to N. floridana; N. tetranychi, described <strong>by</strong> Weiser (1968) as a pathogen of the

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