Faunestic study of some eriophyoid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) in Khorramabad county, Iran

Subject Areas : entomology and othea arthropods

A. Delfan ¹ , Sh. Jafari ² , J. Shakarami ³

1 - Graduated Student, Department of Entomology, Faculty of Agriculture, Islamic Azad University, Arak Branch, Arak, Iran
2 - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran
3 - Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

Received: 2012-08-05 Accepted : 2014-04-26 Published : 2015-08-23

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Abstract :

Mites of the superfamily Eriophyoidea feed on plants and some species are important agricultural pests. Faunestic study of Eriophyoidea in Khorramabad region were carried out during 2010-2011. The sampling was performed on orchards, fruit trees and non fruit trees, weeds, pastures, and other plants. In this study 13 species belong to seven genera and two families on 11 host plants were collected and identified. The collected specimens were identified based on the morphological characteristics such as legs, feather claw, prodorsal plate, coxisternum plate, body setae, dorsal and ventral opisthosomal annuli and microtubercles. The lists of identified mites are as fallows, the marked species with two and one asterisk are new records for Iran and Lorestan fauna, respectively. Family: Eriophyidae 1. Eriophyes pyri (Pagenstecher) * 2. Aceria tristriatus (Nalepa)* 3. Aceria erineus (Nalepa) * 4. Aceria brachytarsus (Keifer)* 5. Aceria mackiei (Keifer) ** 6. Aceria fraxinivora (Nalepa)* 7. Aculus solani Boczek and Davis * 8. Aculus fockeui (Nalepa & Trouessary)* 9. Aculops lycopersici (Massee) 10. Aculops tetanothrix (Nalepa)* 11. Tetra glycyrrhiza Denizhan** 12. Notallus nerii Keifer* Family: Diptilomiopidae 13. Rhyncaphytopus ficifoliae Keifer*