Eriophyes pyri (Pagenstecher, 1857)

Bahirai, Fereshteh, Jafari, Shahriar, Lotfollahi, Parisa & Shakarami, Jahanshir, 2021, Eriophyoidea (Acari: Trombidiformes) of the Lorestan Province and first record of Aceria querci (Garnam, 1883) outside of the USA, Persian Journal of Acarology 10 (1), pp. 111-119 : 112

Eriophyes pyri (Pagenstecher, 1857)

Material examined – A large number of females and males were collected on leaves of pear trees ( Pyrus communis L.: Rosaceae ). Twenty-eight (28) females and nine males, Shurab district , Khorramabad, 9 August 2017 ; 20 females and five males, Khayan village , Borujerd County, 11 July 2018 ; 30 females and two males, Goldasht village , Borujerd County, 6 August 2018 ; 38 females and 22 males, Kheyrabad Khorramabad , 4 July 2018 ; Aleshtar city, 17 September, 2017; Lorestan Province, Iran .

Remarks – This species has been reported from different regions of Iran (Khanjani and Haddad Irani- Nejad 2006; Babaei et al. 2010; Lotfollahi et al. 2014b). This species was previously reported from Lorestan Province ( Delfan et al. 2014).