Contribution on Aceria spp. (Acari: Trombidiformes: Eriophyoidea) from southwest of East Azerbaijan province in Iran: new records and description of two new species

Abstract

During a survey on Eriophyoid Mites in southwest of East Azerbaijan province (Iran), Aceria zygofabae n. sp. and Aceria alkannae n. sp. were found on Zygophyllum fabago L. (Zygophyllaceae) and Alkanna bracteosa Boiss. (Boraginaceae), respectively. They are described and illustrated here. Four further Aceria species were collected and identified as A. eucricotes (Nalepa, 1892), A. cynodonis Wilson, 1959, A. chenopodia Xue, Sadeghi & Hong, 2009 and A. tristriata (Nalepa, 1890) (protogyne and deutogyne). Aceria cynodonis is a new record for Iran Eriophyoid fauna whereas the other species were found for the first time in East Azerbaijan.

Aceria species associated with Solanaceae worldwide with description of a new species

“…Differential diagnosis -The new species was compared with 18 Aceria species associated with the plants of family Solanaceae known to date. The new species closely resembles Aceria eucricotes (Nalepa) collected on Lycium europaeum L. from Algeria and, previously, also on L. ruthenicum from Iran (Lotfollahi et al 2017). Both species have completely smooth prodorsal shields, similar number of empodial rays and body setal length.…”

“…Remarks -This is the third eriophyoid species collected on L. ruthenicum and all three species were collected from this host plant in Iran (Lotfollahi et al 2014(Lotfollahi et al , 2017.…”

“…However, about 46 eriophyoid species have been collected on this plant family until now and 18 of them belong to the genus Aceria (Amrine and de Lillo unpublished database; Table 1). Six eriophyoid mite species are reported in Iran from Solanaceae including Aceria eucricotes (Nalepa), A. melongena (Zaher & Abou-Awad), A. paramacrodonis Kuang, Aculops lycopersici (Tryon), Tetra lycopersici Xue & Hong and Echinacrus ruthenicus Lotfollahi, de Lillo & Haddad (Sepasgozarian 1973;Baradaran-Anaraki and Daneshvar 1992;Ramazani et al 2006;Jalilian et al 2010;Kamali 2011;Hong, 2005, Xue et al 2011;Lotfollahi et al 2014Lotfollahi et al , 2017Delfan et al 2015;Honarmand and Sadeghi 2016).…”

“…Figure2Schematic drawings of the prodorsal shield of: A -A. eucricotes(Nalepa, 1892) (fromLotfollahi et al 2017); B -A. pallidaKeifer, 1964 (redrawn from Keifer 1964); C -A. bicornis(Trotter, 1900) (redrawn from Trotter 1900); D -A. kuko(Kishida, 1927) (from Ripka and Sanchez 2017); E -A. parawagnoni(Kuang, 1983) (redrawn from Kuang 1983); F -A. paramacrodonisKuang, 1988 (from Kuang 1988; G -A. sodomaei(Keifer, 1976) (redrawn fromKeifer 1976); H -A. melongena(Zaher & Abou-Awad, 1979) (fromZaher and Abou-Awad 1979).…”