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Species Composition and Diversity of Mites Inhabiting Pomegranate Orchards at Assiut, Upper Egypt

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Acari
Biology
Taxonomy

Abstract

Mites play an important role in the biological cycle of nature, as well as in the agricultural cycles of plants. They are considered to be very important for most plants, especially fruit orchards, which case both, qualitative and quantitative losses, they also cause different types of allergenic reactions among the fruit handles and farmers. A comprehensive survey of mites inhabiting pomegranate orchards at Assiut and its suburbs was conducted in the work herein. During the current work, colonies of the pomegranate false spider mite, Tenuipalpus punicae Pritchard & Baker and the mango spider mite, Oligonychus mangiferus (Rahman & Sapra) were recorded on pomegranate trees at Assiut governorate. The relative abundance of both mite species and their natural enemies was conducted. Based on previous studies, about 24 mite species in nine families were recorded in Egypt. In order to determine species composition of phytophagous and predacious mites on pomegranate trees, samples were taken from leaves, buds and fruits during 2018/2019 and 2019/2020 seasons. The citrus brown mite, Eutetranychus orientalis (Klein); T. punicae and the broad mite, Polyphagotarsonemus latus (Banks) seemed to be the most common phytophagous mites on pomegranate trees. On the other side, several predatory mite species were also recorded in the present work. Of these, Amblyseius swirskii Athias-Henriot; Euseius scutalis (Athias-Henriot); Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten; Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes (Phytoseiidae), and Agistemus exsertus Gonzalez (Stigmaeidae), all were recorded in large numbers, especially on pomegranate leaves of all varieties. While Cheletogenes ornatus (Canestrini & Fanzago) and Cheletomimus bakeri (Ehara) (Cheyletidae) were recorded mostly on leaves and fruits. Quantifying the occurrence of various predacious mite species on pomegranate trees, may be of great importance to reduce the number of phytophagous ones. In separated subsequent studies, the efficacy of these predatory mites can be estimated as one of the biological control agents.

DOI

10.21608/ajesa.2019.164152

Keywords

Acari, species composition, diversity, Mites, pomegranate, Egypt

Authors

First Name

Abdelgayed

Last Name

Abdelgayed

MiddleName

S.

Affiliation

Plant Protec. Res. Institute, Agric. Res. Cent. Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

ahmed.abdelgid@yahoo.com

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N.

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Abd El-Wahed

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Plant Protec. Res. Institute, Agric. Res. Cent. Dokki, Giza, Egypt

Email

dr.nazehabdelwahed@gmail.com

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First Name

N.

Last Name

Ali

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526 Egypt

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First Name

Sayed

Last Name

Eraky

MiddleName

Ali

Affiliation

Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

Email

seraky53@yahoo.com

City

Assiut

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Volume

13

Article Issue

1

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812

Issue Date

2019-12-01

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2021-04-14

Publish Date

2019-12-01

Page Start

29

Page End

36

Print ISSN

1687-4633

Online ISSN

2090-3790

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https://ajesa.journals.ekb.eg/article_164152.html

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Original research articles

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28

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Journal

Publication Title

Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology

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https://ajesa.journals.ekb.eg/

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Species Composition and Diversity of Mites Inhabiting Pomegranate Orchards at Assiut, Upper Egypt

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22 Jan 2023