A Checklist of the Eriophyoidea (Acari) Known from Thrace Including a New Species of Aceria Keifer

Abstract

Abstract. Eighteen species of eriophyoid mites were recorded from Thrace, Turkey, which included two new distribution records for the country: Aculops thymi (Nalepa, 1889), collected on Teucrium polium L. (Lamiaceae); Aceria sawatchense Keifer, 1965, collected on Polygonum sp. (Polygonaceae); and one new species, Aceria edirnensis new species, collected on Potentilla erecta (L.) Rausch. (Asteraceae). The new species is described and illustrated and a table of diagnostic characters is provided to distinguish it from the most similar species, A. anserinus. The species from the region are listed and annotated with available host plant information and distributions in Turkey.