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Issue: Vol. 4066 No. 3: 15 Jan. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.3.3
Page range: 255–270
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Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from Turkey: description of five new species

Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 60-687 Poznań, Poland.
Department of Plant Protection, Acarology Laboratory, Yüzüncü Yıl University, Van, Turkey.
Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 60-687 Poznań, Poland.
Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 60-687 Poznań, Poland.
Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Umultowska 89, 60-687 Poznań, Poland.
Acari Eriophyidae Trombidiformes morphology taxonomy Van Aceria Aculus

Abstract

Five new eriophyoid mite species (Eriophyidae) from Turkey are described and illustrated in this paper: Aceria vanensis n. sp., Aceria onosmae n. sp., Aculus lydii n. sp., Aculus gebeliae n. sp. and Aculus spectabilis n. sp.. The descriptions are based on the morphology of females collected from weedy plants, respectively: Amaranthus retroflexus L. (Amaranthaceae), Onosma isauricum Boiss. et Heldr. (Boraginaceae), Hypericum lydium Boiss. (Hypericaceae), Lotus gebelia Vent. (Fabaceae) and Stachys spectabilis Choisy ex DC. (Lamiaceae). The new species were found to be vagrant on their host plants with no visible damage symptoms observed.

 

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