Species Aceria tosichella Keifer, 1969

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• Aceria tosichella Keifer, H.H. 1969. Eriophyid studies. C-3. Special Publication, State Bureau of Entomology, California Department of Agriculture. 24 pp.

Introduction

Aceria tulipae (Keifer, 1938) has often been confused with Aceria tosichella Keifer, 1969. It is now known that A. tulipae occurs only on bulb-forming plants such as onions and ornamental bulbs. Aceria tosichella occurs only on grasses, and is the vector of wheat streak mosaic virus (Amrine & Stasny, 1994). Both species are the subject of a very extensive literature, which is reviewed by Lindquist et al. (1996). Information about the occurrence of both species in Australia was reviewed by Halliday & Knihinicki (2004). There is growing evidence that the species known as Aceria tosichella in Australia and elsewhere is a complex of several species, possibly with different ranges of host plants and virus vector capabilities (Schiffer et al. 2009; Miller et al., 2012; Skoracka et al., 2012). The systematics and biology of this species were comprehensively reviewed by Navia et al. (2013).

General References

Amrine, J.W. & Stasny, T.A. 1994. Catalog of the Eriophyoidea (Acarina: Prostigmata) of the World. Michigan : Indira Publishing House 798 pp. (as Aceria tosichella)

Coutts, B.A., Strickland, G.R., Kehoe, M.A., Severtson, D.L. & Jones, R.A.C. 2008. The epidemiology of wheat streak mosaic virus in Australia: case histories, gradients, mite vectors, and alternative hosts. Australian Journal of Agricultural Research 59: 844–853 (as Aceria tosichella)

Halliday, R.B. & Knihinicki, D.K. 2004. The ocurrence of Aceria tulipae (Keifer) and Aceria tosichella Keifer in Australia (Acari: Eriophyidae). International Journal of Acarology 30: 113–118 (as Aceria tosichella)

Lindquist, E.E., Sabelis, M.W. & Bruin, J. (eds) 1996. Eriophyoid mites. Their Biology, Natural Enemies and Control. Amsterdam : Elsevier 790 pp. (as Aceria tosichella)

Miller, A.D., Umina, P.A., Weeks, A.R. & Hoffmann, A.A. 2012. Population genetics of the wheat curl mite (Aceria tosichella Keifer) in Australia: implications for the management of wheat pathogens. Bulletin of Entomological Research 102: 199–212 (as Aceria tosichella)

Navia, D., Santos de Mendonça, R., Skoracka, A., Szydło, W., Knihinicki, D., Hein, G.L., Valle da Silva Pereira, P.R., Truol, G. & Lau, D. 2013. Wheat curl mite, Aceria tosichella, and transmitted viruses: an expanding pest complex affecting cereal crops. Experimental and Applied Acarology 59: 95–143 (as Aceria tosichella)

Schiffer, M., Umina, P., Carew, M., Hoffmann, A., Rodoni, B. & Miller, A. 2009. The distribution of wheat curl mite (Aceria tosichella lineages in Australia and their potential to transmit wheat streak mosaic virus. Annals of Applied Biology 155: 371–379 (as Aceria tosichella)

Skoracka, A., Kuczyński, L., Santos de Mendonça, R., Dabert, M., Szydło, W., Knihinicki, D., Truol, G. & Navia, D. 2012. Cryptic species within the wheat curl mite Aceria tosichella (Keifer) (Acari: Eriophyoidea), revealed by mitochondrial, nuclear and morphmetric data. Invertebrate Systematics 26: 417–433 (as Aceria tosichella)

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