Morphological identification of Amphitetranychus species (Acari: Tetranychidae) with crossbreeding, esterase zymograms and DNA barcode data

• Tea Arabuli ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan, Institute of Zoology, Ilia State University, Kakutsa Cholokashvilli Ave, Tbilisi, Georgia, Institute of Entomology, Agricultural University of Georgia, Kakha Bendukidze Campus, David Aghamashenebeli Alley, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Mohamed Waleed Negm ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

  Affiliations Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3479-0496

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• Tomoko Matsuda,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yasuki Kitashima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Tea Abramishvili,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Pest Diagnostic, Laboratory of the Ministry of Agriculture, Vasil Godziashvili, Tbilisi, Georgia

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• Igor Andrijovych Akimov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, Kyiv, Ukraine

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• Olga Valentynivna Zhovnerchuk,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, Kyiv, Ukraine

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1878-7767

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• Sergei Yakovlevich Popov,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Plant Protection, Russian State Agrarian University—Moscow Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, Timiryazevskaya, Moscow, Russia

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• Tetsuo Gotoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: tetsuo.gotoh.acari@vc.ibaraki.ac.jp

  Affiliations Laboratory of Applied Entomology and Zoology, Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan, Faculty of Economics, Ryutsu Keizai University, Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9108-7065

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