Eriophyidae

Navia, Denise, Duarte, Mercia Elias & Flechtmann, Carlos H. W., 2021, Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata) from Brazil: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 4997 (1), pp. 1-152 : 38-39

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4997.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C7E841E6-7ECB-4A59-89D3-7B001AB67EA7

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C38783-FF8D-C47D-FF06-F96012397339

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Eriophyidae
status

 

Eriophyidae , Cecidophyinae , Cecidophyini

091 Cecidophyopsis malpighianus ( Canestrini & Massalongo, 1893) : 127. (Keifer 1959: 275).

Previous genera assignments.

Phytoptus , Eriophyes .

Type host. Laurus nobilis L. ( Lauraceae ).

Type locality. Italy .

Report in Brazil. Campinas, collected by Dr. J. Mineiro (in this paper, specimens deposited at the mite collection in ESALQ, USP), São Paulo, Brazil.

Relationship to host plant. Bud mites, found in large buds; cause flower distortion and hypertrophy ( Canestrini & Massalongo 1893).

Remark. First report in Brazil.

Type host plants status. Exotic tree, cultivated as a seasoning plant, used in landscaping ( Lorenzi et al. 2003).

USP

University of the South Pacific

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