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Aline Tassi
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Postdoctoral associate at UF/IFAS Tropical Research and Education Center - University of Florida. Acarology, plant virology, virus vectors🕷️🌱🧬🦠🔬
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🕷️ Beyond phoresy: Histiogaster arborsignis not only hitches rides with ambrosia beetles it also colonizes their galleries and feeds on symbiotic fungi in Florida avocados
📖 Symbiosis (2025)
🔗 10.1007/s13199-025-01063-0
#Acarology #AmbrosiaBeetles #Research #LatinAmericanScience
October 29, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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🕷️ New record for Brazil! 🇧🇷
Tuckerella elegans is reported for the first time in Brazil, found in the Pampa biome (Sant’Ana do Livramento, RS).

📖 Castro et al. 2025 – Acarologia
🔗 doi.org/10.24349/wpc...

#Acarology #Mites #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #BrazilScience #SouthAmerica
November 6, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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It's week 3 of fatherhood, and today I was granted special dispensation from shopping, housework, nappies & feeding, to do some macrophotography!

The highlight was this Oribatid mite (N. spinulosa) sporting long defensive spines, which I've nicknamed the Hellraiser mite!

#SoilBiodiversity 🧪
A side-on photograph of a brown, round-bodied mite covered in long feathery spines. A face-on photograph of a brown, round-bodied mite covered in long feathery spines.
November 6, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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Meet bob the red velvet mite
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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🧬 New study on Brevipalpus flat mites reveals cryptic diversity and updated species relationships using morphology + mitochondrial and nuclear markers.

Key species: B. yothersi, B. californicus, B. papayensis, B. obovatus, B. mallorquensis, and B. oleae.
#acarology #mites #taxonomy #science
November 17, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Eight new Tarsonemidae species were found from 633 slides at the Cuban Plant Quarantine Lab.
Daidalotarsonemus annonae now has the first male described, improving its taxonomy.

Acarologia (2025) DOI: 10.24349/xu18-1k5i
#Acarology #Mites #Cuba #Biodiversity #Taxonomy #PestManagement #PlantHealth
November 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM