Acarid mites exhibit very important concerns relating to deterioration in grains, which are integral part of our daily intake.
They are responsible for postharvest losses in terms of quality and quantity of different grains and cereals which result in low
nutritional value of food products. Genus Acotyledon Oudemans is reported as the most prevailing genus of acarid mites in
storage structures. In this paper, two new species of the genus Acotyledon viz. A. augokiensis n.sp. and A. haroonabadensis
n.sp., collected from Triticum aestivum L. (Poaceae) and Oryza sativa L. (Poaceae) are described here. A key to the species
of the genus Acotyledon from Pakistan is also given.
Zahid Mahmood Sarwar, Muhammad Hamid Bashir, Muhammad Ahsan Khan, Sabyan Fairs Honey, Muhammad Afzal, Yusuf Ali. (2015) New Acarid Mites Of The Genus Acotyledon Oudemans (Acari: Acaridae) From Pakistan, , Volume-52, Issue-3.
