Leaf miners of alfalfa in East-Azerbaijan province, Northwest of Iran
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Alfalfa has special place among the feed plants and are grown in extensive area in Iran. This plant is damaged by different pests such as leaf miners. Leaf miners of this crop were collected during the years 2009 - 2010 from different area of the province. Infestation percent estimated by counting infested leaves in a quadrate (0.25 m2). In this survey five different species of leaf miner were collected, belonging to three Lepidopteran and a Dipteran families. Coleophora vicinella (Zeller, 1849) (Lep.: Coleophoridae) was collected from alfalfa plants grown under trees away from alfalfa fields and Phyllonorycter medicaginella (Gerasimor, 1930) (Lep.: Gracillariidae), Aproaerema anthyllidella (Hubner, 1813) (Lep.: Gellechidae), Liriomyza trifolli (Burgess, 1880) (Dip.: Agromyzidae) and Chromatomyia horticola (Goureau, 1851) (Dip.: Agromyzidae) were collected from the alfalfa fields. Overall incidence of the species of the families Agromyzidae, Gracillariidae and Gellechidae were estimated to be 1.2, 1.8, 2.4 and 4.5% in Marand, Shabestar, Sarab and Ajabshir respectively.
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