New records of the tribe Bryobiini berlsese (Acari: Tetranychidae: Bryobiinae) from Serbia, with notes about associated predators (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

K Mladenovic,B Stojnic,Z Radulovic,B Vidovic

doi:10.2298/abs1303199m

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of the present knowledge and some new faunistic and zoogeographic data of the insufficiently researched tribe Bryobiini in Serbia. In Serbia, this group of mites is represented by eight species, including four species new to Serbian fauna: Bryobia angustisetis Jakobashvili, B. lagodechiana Reck, B. ulmophila Reck and B. vasiljevi Reck. New data on host plant species and families have also been obtained - two new host plant species for B. angustisetis, two host plant species and two host plant families for B. graminum, one host plant species for B. lagodechiana, four host plant species and one host plant family for B. rubrioculus, two host plant species and one host plant family for B. ulmophila, and one host plant species for B. vasiljevi. This overview was supplemented with data on the other groups of leaf-inhabiting mites that coexist with Bryobiini species. Statistical analysis of interspecific association was done to determine the role of 15 associated predatory mite species belonging to the families Phytoseiidae, Anystidae and Trombidiidae.

Highlights

Worldwide, the subfamily of phytophagous mites, Bryobiinae, contains 388 species and 35 genera, included in three tribes: Bryobiini Berlsese, 1913 sensu Reck, 1950, Hystrichonychini Pritchard and Baker, 1955, and Petrobiini Reck, 1952 (Migeon and Dorkeld, 2006-2011)
The largest of all genera in the subfamily Bryobiinae is the genus Bryobia Koch, 1836, with 130 known species in the world and 62 species recorded in Europe (Bolland, 2011; Kulikova, 2008, 2011)
This research aimed to investigate the presence of Bryobia mites in natural forest habitats in Serbia, and to summarize all Bryobiini data collected so far

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Introduction

The subfamily of phytophagous mites, Bryobiinae, contains 388 species and 35 genera, included in three tribes: Bryobiini Berlsese, 1913 sensu Reck, 1950, Hystrichonychini Pritchard and Baker, 1955, and Petrobiini Reck, 1952 (Migeon and Dorkeld, 2006-2011). The largest of all genera in the subfamily Bryobiinae is the genus Bryobia Koch, 1836, with 130 known species in the world and 62 species recorded in Europe (Bolland, 2011; Kulikova, 2008, 2011). Based on zoogeographical data, in most of the European countries there is a small number of recorded species. Besides the fact that in several European countries mites of the tribe Bryobiini have not yet been discovered, in 20 European countries only 1-5 species have been recorded, in five countries 6-10 species; a greater number of species have been found only in France (12) , Ukraine (19), Italy (20) and Greece (29), (Migeon and Dorkeld, 2006-2011; Bolland, 2011). It can be assumed that, with the exception

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