New records of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Trombidiformes, Eriophyidae) from Golestan province of Iran

Document Type : Research articles

Authors

• Ali Gol ¹
• Hossein Sadeghi namaghi ¹
• X Feng Xue ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran

² Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China

10.22067/ijab.v12i1.48055

Abstract

Four Eriophyoid mite species are reported from Golestan province of Iran as new records. They are Tetra salixis (Xue, Song & Hong, 2006) on Salix caprea Kilmarnock (Saliaceae); Tegonotus depressus (Nalepa, 1894) on Corylus avellana Contorta (Betulaceae); Aceria salviae (Nalepa, 1891) on Salvia sp. (Lamiaceae) and Epitrimerus gibbosus (Nalepa, 1892) on Rubus fruticosus L. (Rosaceae). Morphological diagnostic characters and geographical distribution of the collected species are briefly discussed.

Keywords

• Host
• Prostigmata
• Fauna
• Tetra
• Tegonotus
• Aceria
• Epitrimerus

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