Biologia 72/10: 1181—1184, 2017 Section Zoology DOI: 10.1515/biolog-2017-0132
Tegolophus glycyglabri sp. n. (Trombidiformes: Eriophyidae), a new species from Iran
Salman Hayatolgheyb1,ParisaLotfollahi2*, Shahriar Jafari1 & Jahanshir Shakarami1
1Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran; e-mails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] 2Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran; e-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Tegolophus glycyglabri Lotfollahi, Hayatolgheyb & Jafari sp. n. is described from Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (Legu- minosae) in Hatamvand village, Lorestan province, Iran. This is the third eriophyoid mite and the first Tegolophus species described from the plant species of the genus Glycyrrhiza. Key words: Anthocoptini; Leguminosae; Licorice; Lorestan.
Introduction 2014. Eriophyoid mites were recovered from plant materi- als through the direct examination of the host plant sample The cosmopolitan plant species Glycyrrhiza glabra L. under a stereomicroscope. The mites were slide mounted ac- (Leguminosae) has medicinal importance and is fre- cordingtoBakeretal. (1996). The terminology and the setal quentlyusedinfood,confectionery and pharmaceu- notation in the morphological description of the mite follow tical products (Mukhopadhyay & Panja 2008; Ah- mainly Lindquist (1996). All morphological measurements were taken by means of a phase contrast microscope Olym- madi Hosseini et al. 2014). Until now two eriophyoid pus BX53 according to Amrine & Manson (1996) as modi- species were found on this plants species, Tetra gly- fied by de Lillo et al. (2010), and are given in micrometers. cyrrhizae Denizhan, Monfreda, C¸ obanoglu & de Lillo, Slight clarifications should be added as follows: ventral semi- 2007 from Turkey (Denizhan et al. 2007) and Acu- annuli were counted from the first entire annulus behind the lus lorestaniensis Lotfollahi, Hayatolgheyb & Jafari, prodorsal shield; coxigenital semiannuli were counted medi- 2017 from Iran (Lotfollahi et al. 2017). During the ally from the coxal region to the anterior margin of the ex- current study the third species belonging to Tegolo- ternal genitalia and were not included in the ventral semian- phus genus was collected from G. glabra.Untilnow nuli count. Measurements and means are rounded off to the 81 Tegolophus species have been described worldwide nearest integer when required. Measurements refer to the (Amrine and de Lillo unpublished databases) and three length of the morphological trait unless otherwise specified. of them have been found in Iran (Lotfollahi unpub- The holotype measurements are followed by range values, lished database), including: T. hassani (Keifer, 1959) in parentheses, of the studied population (i.e. holotype and paratypes). The mean values of the paratypes are reported from Olea europaea L. (Oleaceae) (Khanjani & Had- in the few cases in which the measurements of the holotype T. califraxini Fraxi- dad 2006); (Keifer, 1938) from could not be taken, due to the slide mounting position of nus rotundifolia Miller (Oleaceae) (Lotfollahi et al. the specimens. Line drawings were hand-drawn through a 2014); T. marrubiumer Xue, Sadeghi & Honarmand, camera lucida according to de Lillo et al. (2010) and the ab- 2016 on Marrubium vulgare L. (Lamiaceae) (Xue et breviations labelling schematic drawings in figure 1 follow al. 2016). The aim of the present study is describing mainly Amrine et al. (2003). The generic classification fol- and illustrating the new species, Tegolophus glycyglabri lows Amrine et al. (2003) and comparisons were also made sp. n. with new genera described since that publication. The host plant was identified by an expert and its name is in accordance with The Plant List on-line database Material and methods (2013). In order to study the eriophyid mites associated to Legu- Type materials are deposited at the Acarology Labo- minosae plants in Hatamvand village of Lorestan province ratory, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricul- (Iran), a preliminary plant sampling was done on early July ture, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz (Iran).
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