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Title: Journal of entomology and zoology
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Dept. of Zoology
Subjects: Entomology Insects Zoology Zoology
Publisher: Claremont, Calif., U.S.A. : Pomona College Dept. of Zoology
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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northern Africa. I have failed to find any record ofthe mite occurring in India, or in the Philippines. Distribution in the United States The distribution of the common red spider in this country ishere given in the form of a map (see Fig. 1). Not only are theauthentic and questionable locality records given, but also theregions where there is a known general distribution of the mite,or those where there is probably a general distribution of thesame. By examining this map we notice that there are seventy-sevenauthentic locality records of the species in the United States;and in addition there are eleven questionable ones. It is alsonoted that we have authentic records of this species occurringin thirty-one different states, and in the District of Columbia.We also have an unauthentic record of the species occurring inone other state. Eegions of Known General Distribution These regions are six. They are here given: (a) The NewEngland states plus New York State; (b) the southeastern part
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FIG. I 124 JOURNALi OF ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY of the cotton l)elt, including the states of North Carolina, SouthCarolina, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana, and the southernparts of Mississippi and Alahama; (c) a large area in the regionof the north central states including the states of Iowa andIllinois, the southern parts of Wisconsin and Michigan, and thenorthern parts of Ohio and Indiana; (d) the Willamette Valleyin Oregon; (e) the interior regions of California, including thevalley of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers; (/) the south-ern California citrus region. That the common spider mite isgenerally distributed in these regions is shown, not only by theauthentic reports of its occurrence in them but also by the state-ments of specialists in the Acarina as to its general distribution.That the species is generally distributed in the New Englandstates and New York State is shown by the work of Harvey, bythe statements of L. H. Bailey and others. Besides this thewriter has had mu

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