Mites Inhabiting Some Fruit Trees in Ismailia Governorate

Abstract

Field study was carried out on mite species inhabiting some fruit trees in Ismailia Governorate, during the period from October 2014 to September 2016. Survey of mites proved the occurrence of 44 mite species belonging to 36 genera and 21 families belong to 2 orders and 4 suborders. Order: Acariformes include three suborders; Prostigmata, Astigmata and Cryptostigmata. Suborder Prostigmata was represented by 14 families: Tetranychidae (7 species), Tenuipalpidae (8 species), Eriophyidae (one species), Stigmaeidae (2 species), Neophyllobiidae (2 species), Caligonellidae (one species), Raphignathidae (one species), Cheyletidae (3 species), Eupalopsellidae (one species), Bdellidae (one species), Cunaxidae (one species), Eupodidae (one species), Tydeidae (3 species) and Tarsonemidae (one species). Suborder: Astigmata was represented by two families: Acaridae (two species) and Glycyphagidae (one species). Suborder Cryptostigmata was represented by two families: Oppiidae (one species) and Oribatulidae (one species). On the other hand, order: Acariformes include one suborder: Mesostigmata, which represented by three families: Phytoseiidae (4 species), Ologamasidae (one species) and Ameroseiidae (one species).

Comparative faunistic analysis of mite species on neglected and conventional pome fruit trees in Turkey

“…Many studies on mite species associated with pome fruits were conducted in various countries. For example, mite species on apple trees in England (Collyer 1956), Michigan (USA) (Strickler et al 1987), Finland (Tuovinen and Rokx 1991), Israel (Palevsky et al 1996), Slovakia (Praslicka and Bartekova 2008), Iran (Rahmani et al 2010), Syria (Dahiah et al 2011), Serbia (Stojnic et al 2014) and Egypt (Hussian et al 2018); pear mite fauna in Britain (Bergh and Weiss 1993), Egypt (Ismailia) (Osman and Mahmoud 2008); mite species on both apple and pear trees in Slovakia (Praslicka et al 2009) and India (Singh et al 2016) were determined.…”