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Issue: Vol. 4425 No. 3: 31 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.12
Page range: 589–595
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Two new eriophyoid mites from Iran in the subfamilies Phyllocoptinae and Eriophyinae (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae)

Khorasan Razavi Agricultural and Natural Resources Research and Education Center, Mashhad, P.O. Box 91735-488, Iran.
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran.
Acari biological control plant feeding Prostigmata Shiraz weed

Abstract

Two new species of eriophyoid mites from Fars province, Iran, are described and illustrated, namely: Tetra aparinea n. sp. causing distortion of Galium aparine L. (Rubiaceae) and representing the first record of the genus Tetra on plants of the family Rubiaceae; and Acaralox shiraziensis n. sp. from Tragopogon graminifolius DC. (Asteraceae), causing no visible damage except for slight wilting.

 

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