Onenew Aceriaspecies (Acari:Eriophyoidea) from Dogijan village in Iran

Jahandideh-Dogijan, Javad; Lotfollahi, Parisa

doi:10.22073/pja.v13i4.85721

Onenew Aceriaspecies (Acari:Eriophyoidea) from Dogijan village in Iran

Authors

Javad Jahandideh-Dogijan ¹

Parisa Lotfollahi ²

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University

² Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

10.22073/pja.v13i4.85721

Abstract

During a field survey of eriophyoid mites in Dogijan village (Marand county, East Azerbaijan province, Iran) in late spring 2023, one new eriophyid species (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) on Chardinia orientalis (L.) Kuntze (Asteraceae) was discovered, illustrated, described, and named as Aceria dogijaniensis sp. nov. The mites cause tight leaf edge rolls of different length with pale blotches on their type host plant. In addition, a population of similar mites was collected on Centaurea sp. (Asteraceae) with leaf galls made by Subanguina sp. (Nematoda: Secernentea: Tylenchida: Anguinidae) at the same locality on the same date. Few quantitative and qualitative differences were found between the two populations collected on the two host plants. In this study, we provided a list of Aceria spp. associated with Asteraceae in Iran.

Keywords

Asteraceae

Centaurea

Chardinia

East Azerbaijan

Gall

Marand