Onenew Aculusspecies (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae)on Glycyrrhiza glabra from Lorestanprovince,Iran

Lotfollahi, Parisa; Hayatolgheyb, Salman; Jafari, Shahriar; Shakarami, Jahanshir

doi:10.22073/pja.v6i1.25586

Onenew Aculusspecies (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae)on Glycyrrhiza glabra from Lorestanprovince,Iran

Authors

Parisa Lotfollahi ¹

Salman Hayatolgheyb ²

Shahriar Jafari ²

Jahanshir Shakarami ²

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

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

10.22073/pja.v6i1.25586

Abstract

During the study on eriophyid mites associated to Fabaceae plants in Naghare village, Lorestan province (Iran), one new Aculus species (Acari: Eriophyidae), A. lorestaniensis sp. nov., was found on Glycyrrhiza glabra L. and herein described and illustrated. This is the first Aculus mites associated to a host plant of the genus Glycyrrhiza.

Keywords

Eriophyoidea

Fabaceae

Glycyrrhiza

Naghare

Prostigmata