ABSTRACT - Three new eriophyid mite species infesting Fabaceae in Turkey are described and illustrated: Anthocoptes trigonellae n. sp. on Trigonella sp., Aceria novellae n. sp. on Hedysarum sp., and Tetra glycyrrhizae n. sp. on Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (licorice). These mites did not cause any apparent symptoms to their hosts.
Key words - Acari, Prostigmata, Eriophyidae, new species, taxonomy, Turkey.
INTRODUCTION
About 200 eriophyoid species are known to be associated with Fabaceae (Amrine and Stasny, 1994; Amrine and de Lillo, personal databases). Among them, Aculus hedysari was described by Liro (1941) on Hedysarum sybiricum Poir. (junior synonym of Hedysarum alpinum L. var. alpinum; http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?18679), in Russia, causing leaf edge rolling and erineum, and Aceria medicaginis (Keifer) was reported on H. coronarium L. in Italy (Majorana, 1970) and the USA (Baker et al., 1996), inducing witches’ broom, leaf crumpling and stunting of plants. No eriophyoid mites have been collected on Glycyrrhiza glabra L. and Trigonella species. Until now, the Turkish eriophyoid fauna consists of about 50 species, and no records are available on Fabaceae.During a survey of the eriophyoid mites of Turkey, mainly in the area around Ankara (Denizhan et al., 2006;
Denizhan, unpublished observations), mites were collected from Fabaceae, including a Trigonella sp., Hedysarum sp. and from Glycyrrhiza glabra L. (licorice). These were identified as new species and are here described and illustrated.
