Present status of eriophyoid mites in Thailand

Abstract

One of the common groups of phytophagous mites encountered on various plants in Thailand is that of the eriophyoid mites, which can be found on agricultural, horticultural, ornamental, and medicinal plants, including fruit and forest trees. Because there is a paucity of information on eriophyoid taxonomy in Thailand, where the host plants are so diverse, there is a need to investigate the presence of these tiny creatures -especially those species that can be harmful to economic crops. Here, the taxonomy of the eriophyoid mites in the collection of the first author was revised, together with the taxonomy of those reported by other researchers. To date, a total of 215 species of eriophyoid mites have been recorded from Thailand. The family Eriophyidae comprises 157 species, whereas only 58 species are reported in the family Diptilomiopidae. These mites are found on 161 plant species under 60 host plant families; they are relatively more numerous ( 10 species)

Alarming evidence of widespread mite extinctions in the shadows of plant, insect and vertebrate extinctions

“…It seems to be particularly true for eriophyoid mites that 'the more you look, the more you find'. There are numerous species of eriophyoid mites associated with better studied plant species, for example, at least 18 eriophyoid species have been reported from the mango tree and about 10 different species from each of the coffee, longan, sugarcane and tea plants (Keifer et al 1982;Amrine & Stasny 1994;ChannaBasavanna 1996;Chandrapatya & Boczek 1997;Ozman-Sullivan et al 2006;Navia et al 2011;Han et al 2015;Chandrapatya et al 2016;Berton et al 2019). Moreover, a number of publications on eriophyoid mites have mentioned the existence of cryptic species complexes (Skoracka et al 2015;Petanovic 2016;Chetverikov et al 2017;Duarte et al 2017).…”

First record of Phyllocoptruta musae (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyidae) in the Neotropics, in Hispaniola

“…These plants are cultivated in the Western Hemisphere from the Canary Islands in Spain to South America, (except Chile and Uruguay) including the Caribbean region, California, Louisiana, Florida, the Bahamas, half of Algeria, most of West Africa and south to Ghana (Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Alimentación y la agricultura [FAO], 2019). In the Eastern Hemisphere distributions of P. musae have been only reported from three countries: Australia, specifically in the state of Queensland (Keifer, 1955), China, in the autonomous region of Guangxi Zhuang (Li et al, 2007) and on Hainan Island (Tan et al, 2014), and in Thailand (Chandrapatya et al, 2016). In the Dominican Republic, country located on the Caribbean Island Hispaniola, it was found in the Línea Noroeste region, in banana plantations (Gran Enano and Williams hybrids) located in the Valverde and Monte Cristi provinces.…”