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Anthocoptini mites with one new species for the world and one new record for Iran
Paper ID : 1082-3IICE (R1)
Authors:
Forough Ranjbar Varandi *1, karim haddad Irani-Nejad1, parisa Lotfollahi2
11- Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
2Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran
Abstract:
The Anthocoptini Amrine & Stasny, 1994 is a tribe in the subfamily Phyllocoptinae. Some of diagnostic characters of this tribe are as follows: Opisthosoma viewed dorsally with annuli evenly down curved over lateral opisthosomal margins; dorsum varying from evenly arched in cross section to flattened, ridged or furrowed; scapular setae with tubercles on or very near to the prodorsal shield rear margin, directing setae to the rear, usually divergently; scapular tubercles either subcylindrical, or the alignment of their bases is transverse to the body; empodium entire. During the study of plant samples collected in Sari county, Mazandaran province (Iran) in summer 2017, eriophyoid mites were recovered using a modified washing method. The mites were slide mounted and all morphological measurements were taken by means of a phase contrast microscope Olympus BX41. In result five species belonging to the tribe Anthocoptini are described here among which Tetra sp. nov. from Pterocarya fraxinifolia (Poir.) Spach (Juglandaceae) is new to world mite fauna, Abacarus sporoboli Keifer, 1965 from Sorghum halepense (L.) Pers. (Poaceae) is new record to the fauna of Iran and three species of Rectalox dorsoenodis Gol, Sadeghi & de Lillo, 2018 from Zelkova carpinifolia (Pall.) K. Koch, 1849 (Ulmaceae), Anthocoptes salicis (Nalepa, 1894) from Salix alba L. (Salicaceae) and Aculops lycopersici (Tryon, 1917) from Solanum lycopersicum L. (Solanaceae) are new records to the fauna of Mazandaran province.
Keywords:
Fauna, Juglandaceae, Phyllocoptinae, Poaceae, Tetra sp.
Status : Paper Accepted (Poster Presentation)