Published July 15, 2019 | Version v1
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Acarus immobilis Griffiths 1964

  • 1. . Kastamonu University, Taşköprü vocational School, Organic Agriculture Department, Kastamonu, Turkey; E-mail: cihancilbirci @ hotmail. com
  • 2. . Ankara University, Agriculture Faculty, Plant Protection Department, Ankara, Turkey; E-mail: cobansultan @ gmail. com

Description

Acarus immobilis Griffiths, 1964

Width: 266.25 ± 0.30 (221.91–317.42), length: 460.85 ± 0.38 (393.87–520.35) (n = 10).

Specimens examined

Taşköprü/ Centrum garlic storage, 7.VI.2014 (4 ♀♀, 4 ♂♂); Taşköprü/ Ağcıkişi Village. 10.IV.2015 (42 ♀♀, 23 ♂♂); Taşköprü Donalar Village garlic storage. 11.VII.2015 (4 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂).

Comments

Acarus immobilis was reported by Çobanoğlu (1996) on wheat in Edirne. The damage of this mite was also identified on kashar cheese by Çobanoğlu and Toros (1988). This mite is a polyphagous species, which is known as flour-cereal mite. Its hosts are flour, seed, onion, garlic, pet food, oilseed, harvested grain, hay, grass, soils, medicinal plants, cheese, abandoned beehives, deep poultry (Solomon 1962; Solarz et al. 1997; Mason 2004; Webster et al. 2004). In this study, it was found on head, green parts and storage of garlic cultivation areas in six villages of Taşköprü.

Notes

Published as part of Cilbircioğlu, Cihan & Çobanoğlu, Sultan, 2019, Phytophagous mite (Acari) species on garlic (Allium sativum L.) cultivation areas and storages of Kastamonu, Turkey, pp. 211-224 in Persian Journal of Acarology 8 (3) on page 218, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v8i3.46349, http://zenodo.org/record/7173998

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2014-06-07
Family
Acaridae
Genus
Acarus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Griffiths
Species
immobilis
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2014-06-07/2015-07-11
Taxonomic concept label
Acarus immobilis Griffiths, 1964 sec. Cilbircioğlu & Çobanoğlu, 2019

References

  • Cobanoglu, S. (1996) Typhloctonus Muma, 1961 (Acarina: Phytoseiidae) species, from thrace of Turkey. Doga, Turk Tarim ve Ormancilik Dergisi, 20: 353 - 357.
  • Cobanoglu, S. & Toros, S. (1988) " Kasar peynirlerinde zararli akarlar ". Gida Dergisi, 13: 409 - 415.
  • Solomon, M. E. (1962) Ecology of the flour mite, Acarus siro L. (= Tyroglyphus farinae DeG.). Annals of Applied Biology, 50 (1): 178 - 184.
  • Solarz, K., Szilman, P. & Szilman, E. (1997) Preliminary study on the occurrence and species composition of astigmatic mites (Acari: Astigmata) in samples of dust, debris and residues from farming environments in Poland. Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine, 4: 249 - 252.
  • Mason, L. J. (2004) Grain mite Acarus siro (L.). Grain Insect Fact Sheet E- 222 - W. Department of Entomology, Purdue University. Available from: https: // extension. entm. purdue. edu / publications / E- 222 / E- 222. html (Accessed on 14. 01. 2019).
  • Webster, L. M. I., Thomas, R. H. & McCormack, G. P. (2004) Molecular systematics of Acarus siro s. lat., a complex of stored food pests. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 32: 817 - 822.