Pronematus ubiquitus ( McGregor 1932 )
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Pronematus ubiquitus ( McGregor 1932)
Material examined — 1 ♀ (Ünye, N41°4′11.40″ E37°13′35.34″, 281 m, 18. VII.2018)
Remarks — Pronematus ubiquitus was originally reported as Tydeus ubiquitus in Lindsay, California from foliage of citrus trees ( McGregor 1932). This species is distributed across all continents except for Antarctica. It was found in North America ( Acuna-Soto et al. 2017),
South America ( Sousa et al. 2015), Europe ( Vela et al. 2017), Africa ( Ueckermann and
Grout 2007), Asia (Baradaran and Arabi 2009), and Oceania ( Maynard et al. 2018). The following locations in Türkiye have reported the presence of this species on various plants:
tomato in İzmir ( Yaşarakıncı and Hıncal 1997); vineyards in İzmir, Manisa, and Denizli ( Göven et al. 2009); eggplant, melon, and zucchini in Antalya ( Can and Çobanoğlu 2010); tomato in Ankara ( Çobanoğlu and Kumral 2014) and Bursa ( Çobanoğlu and Kumral 2014 ; Aysan and Kumral 2018), Solanum dulcamara L. ( Solanaceae ) in Ankara, S. nigrum in Ankara and Bursa ( Kumral and Çobanoğlu 2015); pear ( Akyol and Akyazı 2022); and P. laurocerasus ( Akyazı et al. 2022b) in Ordu. This mite is a predator species that feeds on small prey such as eriophyid and tetranychid mites, as well as plant-based food sources like plant sap, pollen, and fungi ( Pijnakker et al. 2022a, b). In addition, it was noted that P. ubiquitus is an effective solution to combat two main problems in tomato crops: Aculops lycopersici (Massee) (Tormbidiformes: Eriophyidae ) and powdery mildew Oidium (neolycopersici L. Kiss). It is possible to pre-establish and build up large populations of this mite by supplementing tomato plants with pollen ( Duarte et al. 2021 ; Pijnakker et al. 2022b; Moerkens et al. 2023). Because of its importance as potential bio-control agent of Aculops lycopersici but with morphological variability between specimens of different origins and type material, which is in a bad state, Ueckermann et al. (2024) undertook a thorough revision of this species based on material from the type locality compared with populations of other regions.
Acuna-Soto J., Isiordia-Aquino N., Robles-Bermudez A., Flores-Canales R. 2017. Mites associated to the cultivation of soursop (Annona muricata L.) in the municipality of Compostela, Nayarit, Mexico. GARJAS, 6 (10): 306 - 309.
Akyazi R., Soysal M., Altunc Y. E. 2022 b. Species complexes of leaf-inhabiting mites on Prunus laurocerasus L. (Rosaceae) trees in Ordu, Turkey. Acarol. Stud., 4 (1): 9 - 20. https: // doi. org / 10.47121 / acarolstud. 996567
Akyol D., Akyazi R. 2022. Comparative faunistic analysis of mite species on neglected and conventional pome fruit trees in Turkey. Acarologia, 62 (4): 941 - 955. https: // doi. org / 10.24349 / vt 6 l-svza
Aysan E., Kumral N. A. 2018. The tritrophic relationships among tomato varieties, tomato rust mite and its predators. Acarologia, 58 (Suppl): 5 - 17. https: // doi. org / 10.24349 / acarologia / 20184283
Can M., Cobanoglu S. 2010. Studies on the determination of mite (Acari) species and their hosts of greenhouse vegetables in Kumluca, Antalya. Akdeniz University Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, 23 (2): 87 - 92.
Cobanoglu S., Kumral N. A. 2014. The biodiversity and population fluctuation of plant parasitic and benificial mite species (Acari) in tomato fields of Ankara, Bursa and Yalova provinces. Turk. J. Entomol., 38 (2): 197 - 214.
Duarte M. V. A., Vangansbeke D., Pijnakker J., Moerkens R., Benavente A., Arijs Y., Saucedo A. L. F., Wackers F. 2021. Evaluation of Natural and factitious food sources for Pronematus ubiquitus on tomato plants. Insects, 12 (12): 1111. https: // doi. org / 10.3390 / insects 12121111
Goven M. A., Cobanoglu S., Guven B. 2009. Predatory mite fauna in Aegean vineyards. Plant Prot. Bull., 49 (1): 1 - 10.
Kumral N. A., Cobanoglu S. 2015. The potential of the nightshade plants (Solanaceae) as reservoir plants for pest and predatory mites. Turk. J. Entomol., 39 (1): 91 - 108. https: // doi. org / 10.16970 / ted. 55042
Maynard G. V., Lepschi B. J., Malfroy S. F. 2018. Norfolk Island Quarantine Survey 2012 - 2014 - a Comprehensive Assessment of an Isolated Subtropical Island. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 140: 7 - 243.
McGregor E. A. 1932. The ubiquitous mite, a new species on citrus. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 34 (4): 60 - 63.
Moerkens R., Vangansbeke D., Duarte M. V. A., Bellinkx S., De Roo E., Pijnakker J., Wackers F. 2023. Modelling the interaction between a pest Aculops (lycopersici), two predators Pronematus (ubiquitus and Macrolophus pygmaeus) and climate variables: a 3 - year greenhouse study in a tomato crop. Pest Manag. Sci., 79 (12): 5362 - 5373. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / ps. 7747
Pijnakker J., Moerkens R. Vangansbeke D., Duarte M., Bellinkx S., Benavente A., Merckx J., Stevens I., Wackers F. 2022 a. Dual protection: A tydeoid mite effectively controls both a problem pest and a key pathogen in tomato. Pest Manag. Sci., 78 (1): 355 - 361. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / ps. 6647
Sousa J. M., Gondim Jr. M. G. C., Lofego A. C., Moraes G. J. 2015. Mites on Annonaceae species in northeast Brazil and in the state of Para. Acarologia, 55 (1): 5 - 18. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / acarologia / 20152147
Ueckermann E. A., Grout T. G. 2007. Tydeoid mites (Acari: Tydeidae, Edbakerellidae, Iolinidae) occurring on Citrus in southern Africa. J. Nat. Hist., 41 (37 - 40): 2351 - 2378. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222930701589921
Ueckermann E. A., de Vis R. M. J., Reybroeck E., Vervaet L., Van Lommel W., DeWitte J., Foque D., Gautam S., Ouyang Y., Vangansbeke D., De Clercq P., Van Leeuwen T. 2024. Redescription of Pronematus ubiquitus (McGregor, 1932) (Acari, Iolinidae) description of two new species and redescription of two additional species with a review of and key to Pronematus all species. Acarologia, 64 (1): 277 - 311. https: // doi. org / 10.24349 / tyki- 9 xlp
Vela J. M., Wong E., Jaques J. A., Ledesma C., Boyero J. R. 2017. Mite diversity (Acari: Tetranychidae, Tydeidae, Ioinidae, Phytoseiidae) and within-tree distribution in citrus orchards in southern Spain, with a special refernce to Eutetranychus orientalis. Exp. Appl. Acarol., 73 (2): 191 - 207. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / s 10493 - 017 - 0180 - 4
Yasarakinci N., Hincal P. 1997. The Research on determining the pests and beneficial species and their population densities on the tomato, cucumber, pepper and lettuce glasshouses in Izmir. Plant. Prot. Bull., 37 (1 - 2): 79 - 89.
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