| Some eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from Siyahsaran village, Jolfa, Iran |
| Paper ID : 1133-IPCA5 |
| Authors |
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Soheila - Masoudi-Rad1, Fatemeh Abdollahi2, Arash Honarmand3, Parisa Lotfollahi *2 1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran. 2Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran 3Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz |
| Abstract |
| Mites of the superfamily Eriophyoidea (Acari: Acariformes) are small obligate phytoparasitic mites. Based on Klimov et al. (2018), they have been identified as the sister group of the soil deep-dwelling mites of the family Nematalycidae. They are also known as gall mites, rust mites, erinose mites, and blister mites (Krantz and Walter 2009). Among herbivorous mites, Eriophyoid mites are among the most diverse herbivorous groups, with nearly 6000 species classified in three families: Eriophyidae, Diptilomiopidae, and Phytoptidae (Amrine and Stasny 1994). In order to investigate eriophyoid mite fauna (Acari: Acariformes: Eriophyoidea) in Jolfa County (East Azerbaijan, Iran), sampling was done in Siyahsaran village during summer 2023. Eriophyid mites were recovered from the plant material by direct examination and preserved in vials of Oudemans’ fluid (Walter & Krantz, 2009). Collected specimens were slide mounted according to Lotfollahi and Masoudi-Rad (2024). Morphological measurements and identification were done by using an Olympus BX53 Phase contrast microscope. During this study, four species belong to four genera were identified including: Aceria loborectiangulae Lotfollahi & Tajaddod, 2018 vagrant on Atraphaxis sp. (Polygonaceae); Epitrimerus gibbosus (Nalepa, 1892) vagrant on Rubus sp. (Rosaceae), the new record for East Azerbaijan province, herein redescribed and illustrated; Aculus sp. nov. and Notallus sp. nov. vagrant on Asparagus verticillatus L. (Asparagaceae). Until now four Notallus species discovered in the world that two of them are endemic for Iran. Here we discovered and described the fifth Iranian Notallus species. Also, only one eriophyoid species found on Asparagus plants worldwide that is endemic for Iran and herein we collected the second Iranian new eriophyoid species on A. verticillatus. |
| Keywords |
| Aceria, Aculus, East Azerbaijan, Epitrimerus, Iran, Notallus. |
| Status: Abstract Accepted |
