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ABSTRACT
Three new species and one new record of the eriophyoid mites from Iran are described and illustrated. They are Aceria chenopodia n. sp. on Chenopodium album L. (Chenopodiaceae), Aceria mashhadiensis n. sp. on Polygonum arviculare L. (Polygonaceae), Tetra ferdowsiensis n. sp. on Ulmus minor Mill. (Ulmaceae), and Aceria fraxinivora (Nalepa, Citation1909) on Fraxinus excelsior (Oleaceae). All the new species described herein are vagrants on the host plant. A checklist of eriophyoid mites from Iran was provided.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The authors are grateful to Dr. Zi-Wei Song and Mr. Zhen Wang of the Department of Entomology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Jiangsu Province, China for reviews of the earlier draft of this paper. This work was partly supported by Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (Project no. 1039-P). We also thank James W. Amrine, Jr. (West Virginia University, USA) for his valuable suggestions and comments on the manuscript.