A new species of Tuckerella (Prostigmata: Tetranychoidea: Tuckerellidae) present in Casuarina equisetifolia L.
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A new species of the genus Tuckerella Womersley, 1940, from Havana, Cuba, is described, based on a male collected in Casuarina equisetifolia (Casuarinaceae) in Playa municipality. With this finding, Tuckerella species collected on this host in Cuba, are elevated to five.
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