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Issue: Vol. 5463 No. 3: 6 Jun. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.3.5
Page range: 396-404
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A checklist of eriophyoid species (Acari: Eriophyidae) on Zygophyllaceae with descriptions of two new species from Northeast Iran

Department of Plant Protection; Faculty of Agriculture; Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University; Tabriz; Iran
Department of Plant Protection; Faculty of Agriculture; Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University; Tabriz; Iran
Department of Entomology; Nanjing Agricultural University; Nanjing 210095; China
Acari Aceria Aceriini Aculus Anthocoptini gall Kalat Zygophyllum

Abstract

During field survey of eriophyoid mites in northeast Iran (Razavi Khorasan, Iran, summer 2023), two new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) on Zygophyllum atriplicoides Fisch. et C.A.Mey. subsp. atriplicoides (Zygophyllaceae) were discovered, illustrated and described herein. They are Aceria kalatiensis sp. nov., which caused rounded galls on both sides of the leaves, and Aculus sirzariensis sp. nov., which was vagrant on the same samples. Furthermore, we provided a checklist of eriophyoid mite species associated with Zygophyllaceae plants of the world.

 

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