Classification:

Genus: Brevipalpus

Species: Brevipalpus alternatus 

 
Holotype:

Brevipalpus alternatus De Leon, 1961: 46; San Blas, Nayarit, Mexico, ex Conocarpus erecta L. (Combretaceae). 

 
Type Depository:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
 
Synonyms:
Senior synonym of: Brevipalpus tetraflagellatus Livschitz, 1968 — Mitrofanov & Strunkova (1979);
 
Other Names:
Hystripalpus alternatus — Mitrofanov & Strunkova (1979)
 
Distribution:
MEXICO: De Leon (1961a);
USA — FLORIDA: De Leon (1961c);
 
Hosts / Substrates:
COMBRETACEAE: Conocarpus erecta L. — De Leon (1961c), De Leon (1961a);
 
Catalog: Baker et al. (1975); Baker & Suigong (1988); Mesa et al. (2009); Sepasgosarian (1983);
Redescription: Baker & Tuttle (1987); Meyer (1979); Mitrofanov & Strunkova (1979);
 

JUNIOR SYNONYM:

 
Classification:

Genus: Brevipalpus

Species: Brevipalpus tetraflagellatus

 
Holotype:

Brevipalpus tetraflagellatus Livschitz, in Livschitz & Salinas (1968): 111; Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, ex Swietenia macrophylla King (Meliaceae) and Trichilia hirta L. (Meliaceae).

 
Type Depository:
Unknown.
 
Synonyms:
Junior synonym of: Brevipalpus alternatus De Leon, 1961 — Mitrofanov & Strunkova (1979);
 
Distribution:
CUBA: Livschitz & Salinas (1968);
 
Hosts / Substrates:
MELIACEAE: Swietenia macrophylla King — Livschitz & Salinas (1968); Trichilia hirta L. — Livschitz & Salinas (1968);
 
Catalog: Mesa et al. (2009);
 
Notes:
- First host originally listed as Swietenia macrophilla.;
 

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