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Issue: Vol. 3544 No. 1: 8 Nov. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-11-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3544.1.2
Page range: 28–40
Abstract views: 33
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Four new eriophyoid mite species (Acari: Eriophyoidea: Eriophyidae) from Iran

Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Department of Plant Protection, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210095, China
Acari Prostigmata taxonomy Aceria Aculodes Aculops Colomerus new species

Abstract

Four new mite species of the superfamily Eriophyoidea from Iran are described and illustrated. They are: Aceria tragop-ogonis sp. nov. on Tragopogon coelesyriacus Boiss. (Compositae); Aculodes alhagis sp. nov. on Alhagi maurorumMedik. (Leguminosae); Aculops haloxylonum sp. nov. on Haloxylon persicum Bunge ex Boiss. et Buhse (Chenopodiace-ae) and Colomerus robaticus sp. nov. on Prunus dulcis (Mill.) (Rosaceae). Except for Aculops haloxylonum making galls, the other new species described herein are vagrants on their respective host plants.

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