Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ( Keifer, 1954 )

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ( Keifer, 1954)

Cecidophyes hendersoni Keifer, 1954: 123–124 .

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Keifer, 1959: 275.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Hall, 1967: 644.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Flechtmann & Davis, 1971: 8.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Petanovic, 1997: 213.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Labanowski, 1998: 7.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Ramezani et al., 2006: 139.

Cecidophyopsis hendersoni ; Ripka, 2008: 143.

Material examined. 3 females (slide 09/2004/462), from Yucca elephantipes (Agavaceae) , Auckland, New Zealand, 20 January 2004, coll. S. Wilson; 3 females (slide NPPRL ref. 09/2004/689), from Y. elephantipes (Agavaceae) , Rentokil Plant Nursery, Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand, 28 January 2004; 30 females and 2 males (3 slides NPPRL ref. 09/2005/4193), from Yucca sp. (Agavaceae) , Mangere, Auckland, New Zealand, 19 July 2005, coll. A. Reed. Specimens in PANZ.

Host. Yucca glauca , Y. elephantipes (Agavaceae) .

Relation to host. Vagrant; mites cause leaf deformation, with affected fronds dusted with whitish powder.

Dsitribution. New Zealand ( Auckland), USA ( Kansas, Georgia, California), Serbia, Poland, Iran, Hungary.

Remarks. An interesting abnormal development of setae was observed in one specimen collected on Yucca sp. in Mangere, Auckland. The two setae on coxal plate I on one side form a duplex ( Fig. 3B View FIGURE 3 ).