Animalia > Arthropoda > Arachnida > Trombidiformes > Tetranychidae > Tetranychus > Tetranychus urticae

Tetranychus urticae (red spider mite; two-spotted spider mite)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Tetranychus urticae (common names include red spider mite and two-spotted spider mite) is a species of plant-feeding mite generally considered to be a pest. It is the most widely known member of the family Tetranychidae or spider mites. Its genome was fully sequenced in 2011, and was the first genome sequence from any chelicerate.
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Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Feltiella acarisuga[4]
Scolothrips longicornis[5]
Stethorus gilvifrons[5]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 2New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 3Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 4Feltiella acarisuga (Vallot) (Insecta: Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), Ryan S. Osborne, Norm Leppla and Lance S. Osborne, University of Florida, June 2002. Latest revision: August 2012
♦ 5ECOLOGICAL STUDIES ON THE TWO-SPOTTED SPIDER MITE Tetranychus urticae Koch AND ITS PREDATORS, Manal S.M. Ismail, Moustafa H. El Naggar, Maha F.M. Soliman and Mona M. Ghallab, Egyptian Journal of Natural Toxins, Vol. 4(2): 26-44, December (2007)
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0