Sierraphytoptus Keifer, 1939

Stalažs, Arturs & Turka, Ināra, 2019, Eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) of Latvia: an annotated checklist, Zootaxa 4629 (2), pp. 211-236 : 229-230

Genus: Sierraphytoptus Keifer, 1939

Syn.: Fragariocoptes Roivainen, 1951

Sierraphytoptus setiger (Nalepa, 1894)

Type data. Fragaria viridis Weston (Rosaceae) ; Austria.

Host plant records from Latvia. Fragaria viridis Weston (Rosaceae) .

Relation to plant host. Gall-making ( Eglītis 1957; Skoracka et al. 2005).

Bibliographical records from Latvia. Phyllocoptes setiger — Eglītis 1956, 1957 ; Fragariocoptes setiger — Stalažs 2014 .

Distribution in Latvia. No data.

Remarks. Chetverikov & Sukhareva (2009) described two species— Sierraphytoptus setiger (Nalepa, 1894) and Sierraphytoptus ambulans Chetverikov & Sukhareva, 2009 . Sierraphytoptus setiger is noted as inducing leaf galls on Fragaria viridis while S. ambulans is described as a vagrant species which is mainly found on Fragaria vesca L. and rarely on F. viridis Weston. According to Eglītis (1957), the same species in Latvia produce red galls on F. viridis . Petrova et al. (2000) reported that S. setiger was not observed on cultivated strawberries in Latvia.