Abstract
ABSTRACT The ectoparasitic mite, Prasadiseius cocytes (Prasad) (Acari: Otopheidomenidae) was originally described from museum-preserved specimens of the sphingid moth, Cocytius duponchel (Poey) (Lepidoptera: Sphingidae), collected in Peru (South America) in July 1962. A recent examination of the sphingid moths in the collection of the entomology museum of Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA during 2009, revealed the presence of this mite on material collected in South America from Brazil on Cocytius duponchel in August 1993 and Enyo ocypete (Linnaeus) in April 1996; from Ecuador on Enyo gorgon Cramer in October 2001, Eumorpha labruscae (Linnaeus) in August 2002 and Manduca rustica (Fabricius) in October 2001; from Peru on Manduca sp. in December 2008, Xylophanes docilis (Butler) in November 2007 and Xylophanes pyrrhus Rothschild and Jordan in July 1962 and November 2007; and in the Central American country of Guatemala on Adhemarius gannascus (Stoll) in July 2005 and Lintneria merops (Boisduval) in August 2006.
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