Aculus

Aculus
Leaf gall on Salix alba caused by Aculus tetanothrix
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Family:	Eriophyidae
Genus:	Aculus Keifer, 1959
Type species
Aculus ligustri (Keifer, 1938)

Aculus is a genus of mites, including the following species: ^[1]

Species

• Aculus ablopurpurascus Huang, 2001
• Aculus acanthae (Mohanasundaram, 1982)
• Aculus acraspis (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus acutangulae Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus advens (Keifer, 1938)
• Aculus aegerinus (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus aesculi Domes, 2003
• Aculus aflatunivagrans (Ponomareva, 1978)
• Aculus africanae (Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus albopurpurascus Huang, 2001
• Aculus alfalfae (Roivainen, 1950)
• Aculus altus (Nalepa, 1909)
• Aculus amandae (Keifer, 1969)
• Aculus ambrosiae (Keifer, 1943)
• Aculus amygdalina (Banks, 1912)
• Aculus anthobius (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus aphanotrichus (Liro, 1943)
• Aculus aphelus Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus arbosti (Cotte, 1924)
• Aculus arceosae (Briones & McDaniel, 1976)
• Aculus argenteae (Farkas, 1963)
• Aculus arzakanensis (Bagdasarian, 1970)
• Aculus asclepiellus Keifer, 1965
• Aculus asperi (Chandrapatya & Boczek, 2002)
• Aculus asperus Channabasavanna, 1966
• Aculus asteri (Petanovic & Boczek, 2000)
• Aculus atlantazaleae (Keifer, 1940)
• Aculus atturensis Mohanasundaram, 1980
• Aculus aucupariae (Liro, 1943)
• Aculus baccaureae (Farkas, 1960)
• Aculus bacsetae Flechtmann & Davis, 1971
• Aculus balevskii Natcheff, 1966
• Aculus ballei (Nalepa, 1891)
• Aculus bambusae Kuang, 1991
• Aculus bangalorensis Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus beeveri (Manson & Gerson, 1986)
• Aculus betuli (Nalepa, 1897)
• Aculus blagayanae Jocic, Petanovic & Vidovic, 2011 ^[2]
• Aculus brevisetus Carmona, 1972
• Aculus broussaisiae Keifer, 1964
• Aculus broussenetiae Lin-Fuping, Jin-Changle & Kuang-Haiyua, 1997
• Aculus bursifex (Nalepa, 1921)
• Aculus calcarifer (Liro, 1943)
• Aculus calystegiae (Lamb, 1952)
• Aculus campbelli Knihinicki & Boczek, 2003
• Aculus capellae Keifer, 1979
• Aculus capsibaccati (Keifer, 1979)
• Aculus carsonellus (Keifer, 1966)
• Aculus caryfoliae Keifer, 1961
• Aculus cassiae Mondal & Chakrabarti, 1981
• Aculus catappae Boczek & Davis, 1984
• Aculus cauliflorus Boczek & Davis, 1984
• Aculus cayratiae Kuang-Haiyua, 1987
• Aculus cercidii (Keifer, 1965)
• Aculus cercidis (Hall, 1967)
• Aculus chaitus Keifer, 1965
• Aculus chamaespartii Carmona, 1974
• Aculus charniae Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus chihuahuae (Keifer, 1979)
• Aculus clerodendri Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus cneorum (Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus colei Channabasavanna, 1966
• Aculus comatus (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus conspicillatus Flechtmann in Flechtmann & Moraes, 2003
• Aculus convolvuli (Nalepa, 1891)
• Aculus coronillae (Canestrini & Massalongo, 1893)
• Aculus corynocarpi (Manson, 1984)
• Aculus cotyledonis (Keifer, 1939)
• Aculus craspedobius (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus crataegumplicans (Cotte, 1910)
• Aculus cribatus (Keifer, 1961)
• Aculus cysticola (Canestrini, 1892)
• Aculus cytisi Labanowski in Soika & Labanowski, 2000
• Aculus daibuensis Huang, 2001
• Aculus daneki Shi & Boczek, 2000
• Aculus daphnes (Roivainen, 1951)
• Aculus didymbotryae Abou-Awad & El-Banhawy, 1992
• Aculus dimidiatus (Hall, 1967)
• Aculus dipterocarpi Boczek, 1993
• Aculus dominguensis (Cromroy, 1958)
• Aculus epilobiorum (Liro, 1940)
• Aculus epiphyllus (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus eurynotus (Nalepa, 1894)
• Aculus excoecaria (Mondal & Chakrabarti, 1982)
• Aculus fabus Boczek & Knihinicki, 1998
• Aculus fascigrans Boczek & Shi in Boczek, Shi & Lewandowski, 2002
• Aculus ficivagrans Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus flacourtiae Mohanasundaram, 1984
• Aculus fockeui (Nalepa & Trouessart, 1891)
• Aculus fraxini (Nalepa, 1894)
• Aculus gemmarum (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus glacialis (Thomas, 1885)
• Aculus glechomae (Liro, 1940)
• Aculus groenlandicus (Rostrup, 1900)
• Aculus gutierrezi (Keifer, 1973)
• Aculus haloragi (Lamb, 1953)
• Aculus hapsis Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus harpazi Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus heatherae (Manson, 1984)
• Aculus hedysari (Liro, 1941)
• Aculus helianthemi (Roivainen, 1950)
• Aculus helichrysi (Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus hippocastani (Fockeu, 1890)
• Aculus huangzhongensis Kuang, 2000
• Aculus hygrophilus (Roivainen, 1953)
• Aculus hyperici (Liro, 1943)
• Aculus ichnocarpi (Ghosh & Chakrabarati, 1989)
• Aculus indicus Channabasavanna, 1966
• Aculus inquilinus Berezantsev, 1989
• Aculus jahandiezi (Cotte, 1924)
• Aculus jilinensis (Kuang, 1995)
• Aculus juglandis Natcheff, 1966
• Aculus khayae Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus kochi (Nalepa & Thomas, 1894)
• Aculus kolengii Mohanasundaram, 1981
• Aculus konoellus Keifer, 1965
• Aculus kumari (Mohanasundaram, 1982)
• Aculus lactucae (Canestrini, 1893)
• Aculus laevigatae (Hassan, 1928)
• Aculus laevis (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus lambi (Manson, 1965)
• Aculus latilobus (Keifer, 1955)
• Aculus latus (Nalepa, 1894)
• Aculus leguminae (Mohanasundaram, 1982)
• Aculus leionotus (Nalepa, 1891)
• Aculus leonotis Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus lepidii (Roivainen, 1953)
• Aculus leptadeniae Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus ligustri (Keifer, 1938)
• Aculus liquidambaris (Keifer, 1940)
• Aculus longanensis Wei & Kuang, 1997
• Aculus longifilis (Canestrini, 1891)
• Aculus longinychus (Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus longiseta Carmona, 1972
• Aculus magnirostris (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus malus (Zaher & Abou, Awad, 1979)
• Aculus malvae Boczek & Davis, 1984
• Aculus mansoni Amrine & Stasny, 1994
• Aculus marinkovici Petanovic, 1987
• Aculus martialis (Liro, 1941)
• Aculus masseei (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus mastigophorus (Nalepa, 1890)
• Aculus maximilianae (Briones & McDaniel, 1976)
• Aculus megacrinis Keifer, 1962
• Aculus meghriensis (Bagdasarian, 1970)
• Aculus meliae Kuang & Zhuo, 1989
• Aculus melicoccae (Boczek & Oleczek, 1988)
• Aculus menoni Channabasavanna, 1966
• Aculus merostichus (Nalepa, 1918)
• Aculus mespili (Bagdasarian, 1981)
• Aculus micheneri (Hall, 1967)
• Aculus microspinatus (Hall, 1967)
• Aculus minor (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus minutissimus (Hodgkiss, 1913)
• Aculus minutus (Nalepa, 1890)
• Aculus mogeri (Farkas, 1960)
• Aculus montanae Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus moringae Channabasavanna, 1966
• Aculus morivagrans Boczek, 1968
• Aculus mumis (Kuang & Gong, 1996)
• Aculus myrsinites (Roivainen, 1947)
• Aculus nigrus Keifer, 1959
• Aculus niphlocladae (Keifer, 1966)
• Aculus ocimumae Mohanasundaram, 1991
• Aculus olearius Castagnoli, 1977
• Aculus oresterae (Keifer, 1978)
• Aculus ornatus (Roivainen, 1947)
• Aculus osteospermi Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus parafockeui Liu & Kuang, 1998
• Aculus parakarensis (Bagdasarian, 1972)
• Aculus parapycnanthemi Keifer, 1964
• Aculus parvensis (Manson, 1972)
• Aculus parvifoli (Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus parvus (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus pavoniae Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus phaneris Amrine, 2002
• Aculus phyllocopteoides (Nalepa, 1891)
• Aculus physodesi (Keifer, 1979)
• Aculus pimpinellae (Liro, 1941)
• Aculus pistaciae Kuang-Haiyuan, 1998
• Aculus pitangae Boczek & Davis, 1984
• Aculus pittosporae (Mohanasundaram, 1982)
• Aculus pittosporacus Amrine & Stasny, 1994
• Aculus pittosporae (Mohanasundaram, 1982)
• Aculus podanthi (Nalepa, 1929)
• Aculus pretoriensis (Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus pritchardi (Keifer, 1953)
• Aculus prunelli (Liro, 1942)
• Aculus pteleaevagrans Boczek, 1964
• Aculus pterygospermae Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus pulaviensis Boczek, 1968
• Aculus pycnorhynchus (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus quinquilobus (Hodgkiss, 1913)
• Aculus reticulatus (Nalepa, 1890)
• Aculus retiolatus (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus rhamnivagrans (Keifer, 1939)
• Aculus rhododendronis (Keifer, 1940)
• Aculus rhopodacrus Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus ribis (Massee, 1929)
• Aculus rigidus (Nalepa, 1894)
• Aculus rubiae (Roivainen, 1953)
• Aculus rugosus (Sapozhnikova, 1980)
• Aculus salicis Kuang & Luo, 1997
• Aculus salicisalbae (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus salicisarbusculae (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus salicisforbyanae (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus salicisfragilis (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus salicisgrandifoliae (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus salicisincanae (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus salicisretusae (Nalepa, 1925)
• Aculus sarcococcae Mohanasundaram, 1985
• Aculus sargentodoxae Wei & Kuang, 1997
• Aculus sarothamni Boczek, 1961
• Aculus sayanicus Skoracka in Skoracka & Pacyna, 2003
• Aculus schlechtendali (Nalepa, 1890)
• Aculus schmardae (Nalepa, 1889)
• Aculus schubarti (Farkas, 1960)
• Aculus scutellariae (Canestrini & Massalongo, 1895)
• Aculus semenovi (Shevtchenko, Marikovski & Shamsutdinova, 1973)
• Aculus shanghaiensis Kuang, 1997
• Aculus shaoxingensis Kuang-Haiyuan, 1998
• Aculus shoreum (Ghosh, Mondal & Chakrabarti, 1986)
• Aculus smilacis Keifer, 1962
• Aculus solani Boczek & Davis, 1984
• Aculus stachysi (Petanovic & Boczek, 1991)
• Aculus staphyleae (Pantanelli, 1912)
• Aculus stigmatus (Nalepa, 1914)
• Aculus succiphagus (Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus symphoricarpi (Keifer, 1939)
• Aculus syriacus (Fockeu, 1892)
• Aculus tamalpais (Keifer, 1939)
• Aculus tetanothrix (Nalepa, 1889)
• Aculus tetracanthus Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus tetraspermae (Chandrapatya, 1992)
• Aculus teucrii (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus thomasi (Nalepa, 1895)
• Aculus tibialis (Liro, 1943)
• Aculus tiliaevagrans Boczek, 1964
• Aculus tomentosi (Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990)
• Aculus triflorae (Di Stefano, 1966)
• Aculus trifolii Natcheff, 1979
• Aculus truncatus (Nalepa, 1892)
• Aculus ulae Boczek, 1961
• Aculus unctus Boczek, 1964
• Aculus undatae Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990
• Aculus vallis Keifer, 1966
• Aculus variabilis (Roivainen, 1953)
• Aculus verbenae (Keifer, 1977)
• Aculus vermicularis (Nalepa, 1914)
• Aculus verrucosus Flechtmann, 1996
• Aculus viburni Petanovic, Boczek & Shi, 2002
• Aculus viburnifoliae (Boczek & Shi, 1995)
• Aculus vitecicola (Kikuti, 1939)
• Aculus wagnoni (Keifer, 1959)
• Aculus wisterifoliae Keifer, 1963
• Aculus xylostei (Canestrini, 1891)
• Aculus yelagiriensis Mohanasundaram, 1980
• Aculus zaheri (Abou-Awad, 1979)
• Aculus zygophylli Smith-Meyer & Ueckermann, 1990

References

1. Joel Hallan. "Eryiophyidae Nalepa, 1898". Biology Catalog. Texas A&M University. Archived from the original on October 23, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
2. Jocic, I., Petanovic, R., & Vidovic, B. (2011). "Three new species of eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) from Montenegro." Zootaxa 2828: 38-50.