Tetranychus turkestani Ugarov & Nikolskii, 1937

Zhovnerchuk, Olga & Auger, Philippe, 2019, Spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) from the Black Sea Biosphere Reserve (Ukraine): faunistic survey, reinstatement of the genus Georgiobia Wainstein, 1960 and description of a new species, Zootaxa 4559 (2), pp. 321-338 : 336

Tetranychus turkestani Ugarov & Nikolskii, 1937

Specimens examined. 4♀♀, 1♂, Trifolium sp., Solenoozerny area , BSBR (46°27'N, 31°59'E), 15.06.2015, O. Zhovnerchuk .

This mite species has a worldwide distribution and occurs on a wide range of plants ( Migeon & Dorkeld, 2006 –2018). In BSBR it was recorded only in the dry steppe area.

Other records. Unidentified mites of the genus Tetranychus are observed on Cydonia oblonga , Ailanthus sp., Astragalus sp., Salix sp., Centaurea sp., Convolvulus sp., Dianthus sp., Pyrus sp., Achillea sp., Lycium sp., Genista tinctoria , Angelica sp., T. arvense, Urtica dioica, Lycium sp., Linaria genistifolia , Linum sp., Malva sp., Daucus carota , Mentha sp., Sonchus sp., Tussilago farfara , Artemisia sp., Scabioza ukrainica, Rhus sp., Prunus sp., Humulus sp., Cichorium sp., Thymus borysthenicus , Stachys sp., Salvia sp., J. longifolia ; mites of the genus Schizotetranychus are recorded on Potentilla sp., Artemisia sp., Phleum phleoides , Helichrysum arenarium ; mites of the genus Eotetranychus are found on Tanacetum sp.; mites of the genus Bryobia are found on Angelica sp., Elytrigia sp. and Artemisia sp.

In several samples we found more than one tetranychid mite species: T. przhevalskii and M. terpoghossiani were found together on Agropyron sp., T. przhevalskii and Bryobia sp. on Elymus repens , G. richteri and Tetranychus sp. on J. longifolia and P. zachvatkini and Tetranychus sp. on Prunus stepposa .