Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on Brassicaceae: a new species of Metaculus from Turkey and remarks on other species associated with brassicaceous plants
Author
Monfreda, Rosita
Author
Lillo, Enrico De
text
Zootaxa
2012
3154
47
60
journal article
45699
10.5281/zenodo.210175
1ce84764-2afc-4e33-9aab-e8191b52ae84
1175-5326
210175
3.
Aceria cardaminis
(
Cotte 1912
)
Cotte 1912
—
Bull. Soc. Philomathique
, Paris, ser. X, Tome IV(3): 129.
Type
data.
Cardamine hirsuta
L., hairy bitter cress; Mazargues, vallon de Passe-Temps, Marseille,
France
.
General distribution.
Palaearctic (only
France
).
Relation to the host.
The mite affects flowers which become twisted and virescent. Leaves develop abundant hairs with folded borders, turning red.
Remarks.
This species was named by
Cotte (1912)
as a variety of
A. drabae
. It was missed by
Davis
et al
. (1982)
and
Amrine and Stasny (1994)
, but it was elevated to species rank and reported in the Fauna Europaea by de
Lillo (2004)
.