| Danuta Knihinicki |
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Ms Danuta Knihinicki
Technical Officer
(Acarology) |
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| Danuta K. Knihinicki has been with NSW Agriculture since 1989 working
on the taxonomy of plant-feeding mites and their predators. She worked
with Dr Eberhard Schicha, a world authority on the predatory mite family
Phytoseiidae, until he retired in 1993. She has a BSc from the University
of NSW and recently completed her MSc at Macquarie University in the Department
of Biological Sciences. Her current research interest is the agriculturally
important plant-feeding Eriophyoidea: Prostigmata also known as gall, blister,
rust, bud or erinose mites. Danuta undertakes all mite identifications
for the taxonomy section including those of quarantine significance and
curates the Trust's mite collection. |
Significant publications:
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Knihinicki, D.K. and Flechtmann, C.H.W. (1999). A new species
of spider mite, Oligonychus calicicola (Acari: Tetranychidae),
damaging date fruit, Phoenix dactylifera L. (Arecaceae), in Australia.
Australian
Journal of Entomology 38: 176-178.
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Boczek, J. and Knihinicki, D. 1998. Studies on Eriophyoid
Mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea). XXVII. Bulletin of the Polish Academy
of Sciences Biological Sciences 46(3-4): 141-146.
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Knihinicki, D.K. and Boczek, J. (2002). New eriophyoid mites
(Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Australia. International Journal of Acarology
28(3): 241-249.
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