A new speciesofNotallus(Acari: Eriophyidae)onLamiaceae fromIran

Bahirae, Fereshteh; Jafari, Shahriar; Lotfollahi, Parisa; Shakarami, Jahanshir

doi:10.22073/pja.v8i2.45623

A new speciesofNotallus(Acari: Eriophyidae)onLamiaceae fromIran

Authors

Fereshteh Bahirae ¹

Shahriar Jafari ²

Parisa Lotfollahi ³

Jahanshir Shakarami ¹

¹ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran; E-mails: fbahirai @yahoo.com, jafari.s@lu.ac.ir, shakarami.j@lu.ac.ir

² Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

³ Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran; E-mail: prslotfollahy@yahoo.com

10.22073/pja.v8i2.45623

Abstract

One new species of eriophyoid mite, Notallus phlomicosae Lotfollahi & Bahirai sp. nov., associated with Phlomis fruticosa L. (Lamiaceae) is described and illustrated from Lorestan province of Iran. It is the first record of a Notallus species on plants of Lamiaceae. In addition, a key to the known Notallus mite species worldwide, table of morphological comparison among them and figures of their prodorsal shield patterns are provided.

Keywords

Anthocoptini

Lorestan

Phlomis fruticosa

Phyllocoptinae

Trombidiformes