Family ERIOPHYIDAE Nalepa, 1898
- Eriophyidae Nalepa, A. 1898. Acarina. Eriophyidae (Phytoptidae). Das Tierreich 4: 1-74 (reprinted by Verlag Cramer, Weinhein, 1965).
Introduction
The family Eriophyidae includes more than 3,000 species world-wide, all of which are plant parasites. The family includes many species of crop pests, which damage their host plants directly by their own feeding, and by the transmission of viruses (Walter et al. 2009). Many species cause galls and other deformities in their host plants. The world fauna was catalogued by Amrine & Stasny (1994), and their classification, biology, and host-plant relationships were reviewed by Lindquist et al. (1996). The Australian fauna is poorly known, with 74 known species in 29 genera. It is certain that hundreds of other species await discovery, on both native plants and cultivated crops. Beaulieu & Weeks (2007) briefly reviewed projects on biological control of Australian Eriophyidae. Some species have been deliberately introduced for biological control of weeds (Aculus hyperici, Aceria chondrillae).
Apart from the identified species listed here, unidentified or undescribed Eriophyidae have been reported from Australia many times, for example by Schicha (1975, 1979, 1980), Walter (1995, 1999), Longstaff et al. (1999), Walter & O'Dowd (1999), Nahrung & Waugh (2009), and Navia et al. (2013).
Abacarus sacchari ChannaBasavanna, 1966 was reported from sugarcane in Australia by FitzGibbon et al. (1998), but the presence of this species in Australia cannot be confirmed (Ozman-Sullivan et al. 2006; Halliday 2010). There has been considerable confusion surrounding the identity of this species and other species of Eriophyidae that occur on sugarcane, and some of these questions remain unresolved. Barrion & Litsinger (1991) reported "Aceria saccharini" on rice and sugarcane in southeast Asia and Australia, but the identity of this species cannot be determined (Ozman-Sullivan et al 2006; Halliday 2010).
Aceria neseri Smith Meyer, 1981 was considered as a possible biological contol agent for the South African weed boneseed in Australia. A species of Aceria was deliberately introduced into Australia for that purpose. However, it is now known that the introduced species was not A. neseri but another unidentified species (Morley & Morin 2008; Smith et al. 2010). The introduced species is known as boneseed leaf buckle mite (Morley et al., 2012).
Some databases show a record of the coconut mite Aceria guerreronis in Australia (for example, EPPO Plant Quarantine Data Retrieval system). That record was an error, and has now been retracted (CABI, 2016).
Excluded Taxa
- Misidentifications
Eriophyidae: Abacarus sacchari ChannaBasavanna, 1966 — Channabasavanna, G.P. 1966. A Contribution to the Knowledge of Indian Eriophyid Mites (Eriophyoidea: Trombidiformes: Acarina). Hebbal, Bangalore. : University of Agricultural Sciences pp. 154.
Eriophyidae: Aceria neseri Smith Meyer, 1981 — Smith Meyer, M.K.P. 1981. South African Eriophyidae (Acari): the genus Aceria Keifer, 1944. Phytophylactica 13: 117–126
Eriophyidae: Aceria saccharini (author and date unknown)
- Other Excluded
ERIOPHYIDAE: Aceria guerreronis Keifer, 1965
General References
Beaulieu, F. & Weeks, A.R. 2007. Free-living mesostigmatic mites in Australia: their roles in biological control and bioindication. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 47: 460–478
CABI (Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International) 2016. Aceria guerreronis (coconut mite). Commonwealth Agricultural Bureau International. 2016. http://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/2596
Halliday, R.B. 2010. Taxonomic confusion surrounding mite pests of sugarcane and rice (Acari: Eriophyidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology 15: 257–262
Morley, T., Ireson, J. & Ivory, S. 2012. Attempts to establish the boneseed leaf buckle mite in Australia for the biological control of boneseed. pp. 353–355 in Eldershaw, V. (ed.). Developing Solutions to Evolving Weed Problems. Proceedings of the 18th Australasian Weeds Conference. Melbourne : Weed Society of Victoria pp.
Morley, T.B. & Morin, L. 2008. Progress on boneseed (Chrysanthemoides monilifera subsp. monilifera (L.) Norlindh) biological control: the boneseed leaf buckle mite Aceria (Keifer) sp., the lacy-winged seed fly Mesoclanis magnipalpis Bezzi and the boneseed rust Endophyllum osteospermi (Doidge) A.R. Wood. Plant Protection Quarterly 23: 29–31
Nahrung, H.F. & Waugh, R. 2009. Local dispersion and damage of Corymbia citriodora subsp. variegata (Myrtaceae) regrowth by eriophyid mites (Acari: Eriophyoidea). Systematic and Applied Acarology 14: 19–29
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
Ozman-Sullivan, S.K., Amrine, J.W. & Walter, D.E. 2006. A new species of eriophyoid mite (Acari: Eriophyidae) on sugarcane in Australia. International Journal of Acarology 32: 387–395
Schicha, E. 1975. Bionomics of Phytoseius fotheringhamiae Denmark and Schicha, 1974, (Acarina : Phytoseiidae) on apple in Australia. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Entomologie 78: 195-203
Schicha, E. 1979. Two new Typhlodromus from Australia and T. caudiglans Schuster redescribed (Acari : Phytoseiidae). Acarologia 20: 317-326
Schicha, E. 1980. Three new species (Acari : Phytoseiidae) from Australia and collection records of two first described from Madagascar and Hawaii. International Journal of Acarology 6: 245-253
Smith, L., de Lillo, E. & Amrine, J.W. 2010. Effectiveness of eriophyid mites for biological control of weedy plants and challenges for future research. Experimental and Applied Acarology 51: 115–149
Walter, D.E. 1995. Dancing on the head of a pin: mites in the rainforest canopy. pp. 49-53 in M.S. Harvey (ed.). Australasian Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring Barbara York Main. Records of the Western Australian Museum 52(Supplement)
Walter, D.E. 1999. Living on leaves: adaptations of Australian rainforest mites. pp. 73–78 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.
Walter, D.E., Lindquist, E.E., Smith, I.M., Cook, D.R. & Krantz, G.W. 2009. Order Trombidiformes. pp. 233-420 in Krantz, G.W. & Walter, D.E. (eds). A Manual of Acarology. Lubbock, Texas : Texas Tech University Press Third edition, 807 pp.
Walter, D.E. & O'Dowd, D.J. 1999. The good, the bad and the ugly: which really inhabit leaf domatia? pp. 215–220 in Needham, G.R., Mitchell, R., Horn, D.J. & Welbourn, W.C. Acarology IX. Volume 2. Symposia. Columbus, Ohio : Ohio Biological Survey.
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 05-Dec-2019 | Acari | 20-Sep-2021 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 01-May-2017 | Acari | 20-Sep-2021 | MODIFIED | Dr Bruce Halliday |
| 07-May-2013 | 20-Sep-2021 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Jul-2010 | 29-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 29-Jul-2010 | 29-Jul-2010 | MOVED | ||
| 07-May-2013 | 09-Jul-2010 | ADDED | ||
| 08-Jul-2010 | MODIFIED |