Abstract: A faunistic survey of mites was conducted during the period March 2014 to February 2017 from warehouses of twelve districts of Punjab. Wheat dust and rice dust samples were collected from each site seasonally, i.e. Summer (CCL I), Rainy (CCL II) and Winter (CCL III). Mite survey revealed the occurrence of 27 mite species belonging to 3 orders, 15 families. A total of 28701 mite specimens were extracted from the infested samples. The most abundant and most prevalent mite in both types of samples was: Tyrophagus putrscentiae (Schrank, 1781). A total of 315 samples (72.92 %) out of the 432 total collected samples were positive for T. putrscentiae specimens. Out of 28701 mites obtained from infested samples, 4078 (14.21%) specimens were of T. putrscentiae.
Keywords: Faunistic, mite, infested, Tyrophagus putrscentiae.
Title: A REPORT ON THE OCCURRENCE AND ABUNDANCE OF TYROPHAGUS PUTRESCENTIAE (Schrank, 1781) IN WAREHOUSES OF PUNJAB (INDIA)
Author: Navpreet Kaur Gill, Sakshi
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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