مشخصات پژوهش

The superfamily Eriophyoidea is one of the main taxa of plant feeder mites found on different host plants globally. Eriophyoid mites cause significant loss in crop production (Lindquist and Oldfield 1996); they may cause serious damage and malformation in host plants (Druciarek et al. 2014; de Lillo et al. 2018). Despite the importance of these mites as pests, knowledge of their distribution in Lorestan Province is largely insufficient. To study the fauna of eriophyoid mites of different regions of Lorestan Province, host plants were collected during 2016–2018. Eriophyoid mites were recovered from the plant samples by means of a modified washing method developed by Monfreda et al. (2007). The mites were directly slide mounted in Hoyer's medium (Walter and Krantz 2009) without any previous clarification. In this study, twenty two species from twelve genera and two families were collected and identified. Among them, 11 species were recorded for the first time from Lorestan Province andAceriaquerci (Garman, 1883) was recorded for the first time outside the USA. Host plant names are in accordance with "The Plant List on-line database" (2013). All specimens are deposited in the Acarological Collection, Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture of Lorestan and Azarbaijan Shahid Madani Universities, Iran. The list of the collected species is reported below.