Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Brassicaceae: a new species of Metaculus from Turkey and remarks on other species associated with brassicaceous plants
Monfreda, Rosita
Lillo, Enrico De
Zootaxa
2012
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1. Aceria capsellae(Nalepa 1890) Nalepa 1890a— Anz. kais. Akad. Wiss., Math-Natur Kl., Wien, 27(1): 2 (nomen nudum); Nalepa 1890b— Sitzb. kaiser. Akad. Wiss. Math.-Naturwiss.,Wien, 99(2): 66 no. 23 (nomen nudum); Nalepa 1891— Nova Acta Leop. Akad., 55(6): 371–373 (no fig.).
Typedata. Capsella bursa-pastoris(L.) Medik. (= C. Bursa pastorisMönch. as reported by Nalepa 1890a; 1929), Chinese cress, shepherd's purse; collection locality was not stated by the author even though Austriais presumed. General distribution. Palaearctic (presumed to be only Austria). Relation to the host. This mite was associated with the deformation of flowers.
Remarks. No morphological description is available for this species. Most reports consist of catalogue citations. However, Nalepa (1891)compared plant deformation and mites, and established that the flower abnormalities on Camelina sativa(L.) Crantz, Capsella bursa-pastoris, Cardaria draba(L.) Desv. (originally listed as Lepidium drabaL.) and Descurainia sophia(L.) Webb ex Prantl (originally listed as Sisymbrium sophiaL.), were caused by the same mite or, at most, its varieties. On the basis of quite clear morphological differences in mite populations, Nalepa linked Aceria longiorto C. sativaand D. sophia; A. longior var. capsellaeto C. bursa-pastorisand A. longior var. drabaeto C. draba. Later, A. capsellaewas made a junior synonym of A. drabae( Nalepa 1898; 1929). Amrine and Stasny (1994)elevated this species name to the rank of species but they were doubtful about the real taxonomic status of A. capsellae. Without any further details allowing for the clear characterisation of this species, its synonymy with A. drabaewas continued in the Fauna Europaea checklist by de Lillo (2004).