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ABSTRACT
The invasive tomato spider mite, Tetranychus evansi Baker and Pritchard 1960 (Acari: Tetranychidae) is an important pest of solanaceous plants worldwide. Despite its records from almost all over Mediterranean countries, T. evansi had not previously been recorded from Turkey. In this study, we collected T. evansi on black nightshade, Solanum nigrum L. (Solanaceae) in Eastern Mediterranean region of Turkey.
Acknowledgements
We would like to express our sincere thanks to both Dr Eddie Ueckermann (ARC Plant Protection Research Institute, South Africa) and Dr Eleftheria Kapaxidi (Benaki Phytopathological Institute, Greece) for lending us South African and Greek specimens of Tetranychus evansi that we used for comparison. We are also grateful to Dr Alain Migeon (Montpellier SupAgro, France) for confirmation of species identification.