NOTES ON ERIOPHYID MITES (ERIOPHYOIDEA: ERIOPHYIDAE) OF THE SUBFAMILY ERIOPHYINAE FROM SEDGES (CYPERACEAE)

About author:

Philipp E. Chetverikov,

Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; Saint-Petersburg State University, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Acknowledgments:

I thank Drs. A. Haustov and V. Mitrofanov (Department of Agroecology, Nikita Botanical Gardens, Yalta, Ukraine), R. Petanovic (Faculty of Agriculture Belgrade-Zemune, Belgrade, Serbia), C. H. W. Flechtmann (Departamento de Entomolo-gia, Fitopatologia e Zoologia Agricola, Universi-dade de Sao Paolo, Brazil) and A. Skoracka (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland) for send-ing some rare papers and loaning the comparative material. I am grateful to Dr. S. I. Sukhareva (Bio-logical Research Institute of St. Petersburg State University, Old Peterhof, Russia) for reviewing the manuscript and to Drs. T. V. Egorova, G. J. Konech-naya and P. G. Efimov (Komarov Botanical Insti-tute, Saint Petersburg, Russia) for determination of host plants and for assistance in the field work. I also thank Mrs. T. G. Chetverikova for her help in collecting the material from Plesetsk area.

Annotation:

The list of species of eriophyid mites from subfamily Eriophyinae Nalepa, 1898 living on sedges (Cyperaceae) is composed. Eriophyes lentiginosus Mitrofanov, Sharonov et Sekerskaja, 1983 and E. altisonorae (Keifer 1979) are redescribed. A key to species of the genus Eriophyes von Siebold, 1851 living on sedges of the genus Carex L. is given.

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