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A morphological study of variation in Tyrophagus (Acarina), with particular reference to populations infesting cheese

  • Phyllis L. Robertson (a1)
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The difficulty of deciding the systematic status of variations within and between populations of Tyrophagus is considered in relation to the wide distribution of the genus and the many materials it infests.

Variation within populations of what was thought to be one species infesting cheese is explained by the isolation of three closely similar forms which it is difficult, if not impossible, to separate by measurement alone. Frequency distributions overlap slightly for four linear measurement ratios on which separation is attempted, but differences between them are emphasised by differences in minute structural characters and they are therefore accepted as distinct species, identified as longior (Gervais, 1844), palmarum Oudemans, 1924, and putrescentiae (Schrank, 1781).

Variation between populations attacking plant materials and other stored products in addition to cheese is accounted for to some extent by the recognition of three further Tyrophagus species, oudemansi Robertson, 1959, brevicrinatus Robertson, 1959, and tropicus Robertson, 1959.

Within the species recognised, significant differences are recorded in dorsal hair characters and body proportions between populations on cheese produced in different geographical areas, and also between cheese populations and those infesting other materials, and these differences are thought to be at a racial level.

T. longior, T. palmarum and T. putrescentiae are found to be distributed around the world, but as cheese pests they occupy somewhat different, although overlapping, geographical zones, since longior is a temperate-to-cool form, palmarum a temperate form and putrescentiae a subtropical or tropical form. The three are also found to occupy different, but overlapping ecological zones, making possible their association in mixed populations.

Confusion in ecological data previously published on Tyrophagus is thought to be attributable in part to similarities in the morphology, geographical distribution and ecology of its species, and to their close association.

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