Eriophyoid (Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) mite fauna of Miandoab region in Iran with redescription of Aceria kiefferi (Nalepa)

Mehri-Heyran, Hosein; Lotfollahi, Parisa; De Lillo, Enrico; Azimi, Solmaz

doi:10.22073/pja.v9i2.59382

Eriophyoid (Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) mite fauna of Miandoab region in Iran with redescription of Aceria kiefferi (Nalepa)

Authors

Hosein Mehri-Heyran ¹

Parisa Lotfollahi ¹

Enrico de Lillo ²

Solmaz Azimi ¹

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran; E-mails: h.mehri1374.hm@gmail.com, Prslotfollahy@yahoo.com, s_azimi2007@yahoo.com

² Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences (Di.S.S.P.A.), Entomology and Zoology Section, University of Bari Aldo Moro, via Amendola, 165/a, 70126 Bari, Italy; E-mail: enrico.delillo@uniba.it

10.22073/pja.v9i2.59382

Abstract

During the study of the eriophyoid mite fauna of Miandoab region (West Azerbaijan province, Iran), specimens of two eriophyoid families, four subfamilies, four tribes, 11 genera and 19 species were collected and identified. Among them, three species including Aceria kiefferi (Nalepa), Phyllocoptes bilobospinosus Chetverikov and Diptacus gigantorhynchus (Nalepa) were recorded for the first time in Iran. The most abundant species was Acalitus phloeocoptes (Nalepa) and six other species including Aceria cf. tosichella Keifer, A. anthocoptes (Nalepa), Calepitrimerus baileyi Keifer, Aculus fockeui (Nalepa & Trouessart), Abacarus cf. hystrix (Nalepa) and Rhynophytoptus nemalobos Lotfollahi & de Lillo were abundant species in the surveyed region. The old species A. kiefferi is redescribed and illustrated herein, according to the current standard, due to the poor details of the previous old descriptions.

Keywords

Abundant species

Aceria kiefferi

Diptilomiopidae

Eriophyidae

redescription

survey

West Azerbaijan