Five new records of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from herbaceous plants and fruit trees in Van province, Turkey
Abstract
Five species of eriophyoid mites were detected as new records for the mite fauna of Turkey. The samples were collected on herbaceous plants and fruit trees in Bahçesaray, Edremit, İskele and Akdamar island of Van province, Turkey between 2014 and 2016. The identified eriophyid species are Aceria camdeboo (Meyer, 1981) on Celtis sp. (Cannabaceae); A. trifolii (Nalepa, 1892) on Vicia biennis L. (Fabaceae), Aculus parakarensis (Bagdasarian, 1972) on Amygdalus communis L. (Rosaceae), Leipothrix moraceus (Castagnoli, 1980) on Morus alba L. (Moraceae) and Phyllocoptes obtusus (Nalepa, 1891) on Salvia sp. (Lamiaceae). The species are depicted, measured and information on their hosts, damage symptoms and geographical distribution are given.
- Introduction
Eriophyoid mites are very small, obligatory phytophagous invertebrates and the majority of these mites are host specific (Lindquist et al. 1996). Weed-associated eriophyoids are considered to have high potential as biological control agents because of their host specificity (Smith et al. 2010). Turkey has a rich eriophyoid biodiversity because of the geographical position and botanical history of the country (Ekim & Güner 2000; Karagöz 2003). Many studies were carried out to determine the eriophyoid fauna of Turkey (Denizhan et al. 2006, 2008; Denizhan & Çobanoğlu 2010). Denizhan et al. (2015) listed eriophyoid mites in a catalogue along with remarks and information on their current distribution in Turkey and they reported that a total of 130 eriophyoid species for the Turkish fauna up to March 2013. Then, eight eriophyoid species were determined as new records for Turkey: Aceria tenuis (Nalepa 1891), Epitrimerus gibbosus (Nalepa 1892) and Quadracus urticae (Keifer 1944) on weed plants in Samsun (Diler & Ozman-Sullivan 2011), Aceria sobhiani Sukhareva, 2001 on Acroptilon repens L., Aceria carduui Petanovic, Boczek and Shi 2002 on Carduus pycnocephalus L. in Ankara (Diler & Ozman-Sullivan 2016), Aceria stefanii (Nalepa 1898) on pistachio trees in the South-Eastern Anatolia (Usanmaz et al. 2018), Aceria diospyri (Keifer 1944) on Diospyros kaki L. in Yalova (Denizhan 2018) and Rhyncaphytoptus castaneae (Farkas 1960) on Castanea sativa Mill. in Aydın (Gokce et al. 2020).
Although only 138 eriophyoid mite species have been recorded in Turkey to date, there is still many more to be discovered. Therefore, the aim of this study is to add five new species from Van region in Turkey. These new records, increased the total number of eriophyoid species to 143 in Turkey.
2. Material and Methods
The plant samples were collected from herbaceous plants and fruit trees in Bahçesaray, Edremit, İskele and Akdamar island of Van province, located in the Eastern part of Turkey, between 2014 and 2016. Eriophyid mites collected from the plants were directly examined under a dissecting stereo-microscope (Leica ES2) and mounted on microscope slides in F-medium according to Keifer (1975). The identifications were made with the help of a phase-contrast microscope (Leica DM 1000). The morphological nomenclature follows Lindquist et al. (1996), all the measurements were made according to Amrine & Manson (1996) and De Lillo et al. (2010). The systematic classification follows Amrine et al. (2003). Information on the hosts and damage symptoms, geographical distribution of these species and GPS coordinates of the location of each sample are provided. The Prodorsal shield, empodium and genital area are figured. The voucher specimens of the species are kept in the mite collection of the Faculty of Science, University of Trakya, Edirne, Turkey.
Five new records of eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) from herbaceous plants and fruit trees in Van province, Turkey
Evsel DENİZHAN Sultan ÇOBANOĞLU İbrahim ÇAKMAK
Year 2022, Volume 28, Issue 1, 133–138
