Bryobia graminum (Schrank, 1781)

Classification

Tetranychidae - Bryobiinae - Bryobiini - Bryobia

Accepted name

Bryobia graminum (Schrank, 1781). Schrank (1781): 8.

Notes: Van Eyndhoven (1957) gives a good redescription of B. cristata

Original description

Acarus graminum Schrank, 1781. Schrank (1781): 8.

Type host: Poaceae sp.. Type distribution: Germany.

Summary

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  • Nomenclature and taxonomy

         Bryobia amygdali Reck, 1947. Synonym description Reck (1947b): 658. Type host: Rhamnus pallasii. Type distribution: Georgia.
    Bryobia amygdali Reck, 1947. Synonymy by Livshits & Mitrofanov (1966): .

         Tetranychus cristatus Dugès, 1834. Synonym description Dugès (1834): 15.
    Bryobia cristata (Dugès, 1834). New combination Oudemans (1905a): 222.
    Bryobia cristata (Dugès, 1834). Synonymy by Livshits & Mitrofanov (1971a): 57.

         Bryobia gloriosa Koch, 1835. Synonym description Koch & Herrich-Schäffer (1835): 9. Type host: Unknown. Type distribution: Germany.
    Bryobia gloriosa Koch, 1836. Synonymy by Oudemans (1937): 1067.

         Acarus graminum Schrank, 1781. Valid nomenclatural act Schrank (1781): 8. Type host: Poaceae sp.. Type distribution: Germany.
    Bryobia graminum (Schrank, 1781). New combination Oudemans (1929c): 1067.

         Rhyncholophus haustor Hardy, 1850. Synonym description Hardy (1850): 182. Type distribution: United Kingdom.
    Bryobia haustor (Hardy, 1850). New combination Oudemans (1937): 1067.
    Bryobia haustor (Hardy, 1850). Synonymy by Oudemans (1937): 1067.

         Bryobia praetiosa Womersley, 1940. Misidentification Womersley (1940): 246.
    Bryobia praetiosa Womersley, 1940. Synonymy by Pritchard & Baker (1955): 26.

         Acarus rufus Schrank, 1776. Synonym description Schrank (1776): 8.
    Acarus rufus Schrank, 1776. Synonymy by Livshits & Mitrofanov (1971a): 57.

         Bryobia zachvatkini Wainstein, 1956. Synonym description Wainstein (1956b): 386. Type host: Mentha sp.. Type distribution: Kazakhstan.
    Bryobia zachvatkini Wainstein, 1956. Synonymy by Livshits & Mitrofanov (1971a): 57.


    Identification tools

    Original description and illustration literature
    [Original description] Schrank (1781)
    [Synonym description] Dugès (1834) Hardy (1850) Koch & Herrich-Schäffer (1835) Reck (1947b) Schrank (1776) Wainstein (1956b)

    Hosts (51 plants, 25 references)


    Amaranthaceae: Amaranthus sp. Womersley (1940)
    Amaryllidaceae: Allium cepa Mladenović et al. (2013) Allium ursinum Maric et al. (2018b)
    Apiaceae: Daucus carota Mladenović et al. (2013)
    Araliaceae: Hedera colchica Arabuli (2008) Hedera helix Arabuli (2008)
    Asteraceae: Achillea millefolium Maric et al. (2018b) Artemisia vulgaris Chrysanthemum sp. Pritchard & Baker (1955) Ma & Yuan (1980a) Cichorium intybus
    Cucurbitaceae: Cucumis sativus Kamayev (2023a)
    Dioscoreaceae: Dioscorea communis Maric et al. (2018b)
    Fabaceae: Calicotome villosa Ben-David et al. (2013) Colutea abyssinica Ben-David et al. (2013) Medicago sativa Hatzinikolis (1986b) Hatzinikolis & Emmanouel (1991) Pisum sativum Maric et al. (2018a) Trifolium alexandrinum Trifolium repens Geijskes (1939) Trifolium sp. Manson (1967c) Vicia sp. Manson (1967c)
    Lamiaceae: Lamiaceae sp. Mladenović et al. (2013) Lamium purpureum Maric et al. (2018a) Maric et al. (2018b) Mentha longifolia Maric et al. (2018a) Maric et al. (2018b) Mentha sp. Wainstein (1956b) Reck (1959) Salvia nemorosa Maric et al. (2018a) Maric et al. (2018b)
    Malvaceae: Althaea officinalis Maric et al. (2018a) Malva sylvestris Maric et al. (2018b)
    Pinaceae: Pinus strobus Kontschán & Ripka (2017) Pseudotsuga menziesii Mladenović et al. (2013)
    Poaceae: Aegilops sp. Reck (1959) Arabuli (2008) Alopecurus pratensis Geijskes (1939) Avena sp. Gonzalez (1977) Bromus sp. Gonzalez (1977) Cynodon dactylon Maric et al. (2018a) Elymus repens Holcus sp. Hordeum sp. Hatzinikolis & Emmanouel (1991) Lolium perenne Womersley (1940) Weeks & Breeuwer (2001) Lolium temulentum Arabuli (2008) Phleum sp. Reck (1959) Poa sp. Poaceae sp. Schrank (1781) Womersley (1940) Manson (1967c) Hallas & Gudleifsson (2004) Mladenović et al. (2013) Triticum sp. Womersley (1940) Hatzinikolis & Emmanouel (1991)
    Ranunculaceae: Ranunculus aconitifolius Maric et al. (2018a) Ranunculus repens Geijskes (1939)
    Rhamnaceae: Rhamnus pallasii Reck (1947b)
    Rosaceae: Malus domestica Womersley (1940) Hatzinikolis (1983) Prunus amygdalus Womersley (1940) Reck (1959) Arabuli (2008) Pyrus communis Manson (1967c)
    Rutaceae: Citrus aurantium Manson (1967c)
    Unknown: Unknown Koch & Herrich-Schäffer (1835) Hardy (1850)


    Distribution (26 countries, 38 references)


    Australasian: Australia Womersley (1940) Jeppson et al. (1975) New Zealand Manson (1967c)
    Neotropical: Chile Gonzalez (1977)
    Oriental: China Ma & Yuan (1980a)
    Palearctic: Azerbaijan Reck (1959) Belgium Bolland et al. (1998) Bulgaria Balevski (1967) Egypt Zaher (1984b) Kandeel et al. (1989) Estonia Sammet et al. (2023) France Eyndhoven (1957b) Georgia Reck (1947b) Arabuli (2008) Germany Schrank (1781) Koch & Herrich-Schäffer (1835) Greece Hatzinikolis (1983) Hatzinikolis (1986b) Hatzinikolis & Emmanouel (1991) Hungary Bozai (1970) Kontschán & Ripka (2017) Iceland Hallas & Gudleifsson (2004) Israel and Palestinian Territories Ben-David et al. (2013) Italy Bernini et al. (1995) Kazakhstan Wainstein (1956a) Wainstein (1956b) Reck (1959) Kyrgyzstan Strunkova (1988) Morocco El-Jaouani (1988) Netherlands Vierbergen (1990) Weeks & Breeuwer (2001) Russian Federation Kamayev (2023a) Serbia Mladenović et al. (2013) Maric et al. (2018a) Maric et al. (2018b) Switzerland Mathys (1957) Syria Hamadi & barbar (2025) United Kingdom Hardy (1850) Anonymous (1974)


    Literature (47 references in chronological order)


    Schrank (1776) Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte. Leipzig: pp. [1-8], 1-140, Tab. I-VII [= 1-7] p [description]
    Schrank (1781) Enumeratio Insectorum Austriae Indiginorum. Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte, Augsburg, Germany, 8: 548 p [description; distribution; host]
    Dugès (1834) Recherches sur l'ordre des Acariens en général et la famille des Trombidiés en particulier. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris, Série 2, 1: 5-46 [description]
    Koch & Herrich-Schäffer (1835) Deutschlands Crustaceen, Myriapoden und Arachniden : ein Beitrag zur deutschen Fauna. 1. Pustet F. Ed., Regensburg [description; distribution; host]
    Hardy (1850) On the effect produced by some insects etc. upon plants. Annals, Magazineof Natural History, 6: 182-188 [description; distribution; host]
    Oudemans (1905a) Notes on Acari. XIVth Series (Parasitidae, Thrombidiidae). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 48: 221-244 [taxononmy]
    Oudemans (1929c) Kritisch Historisch Overzicht der Acarologie. B2: 1097 p [taxononmy]
    Oudemans (1937) Kritisch Historisch Overzicht der Acarologie. 3C: 799-1348 [taxononmy]
    Geijskes (1939) Beiträge zur Kenntnis der europäischen Spinnmilben (Acari, Tetranychidae) mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der niederländischen Arten. Mededeelingen van de Landbouwboogeschool, Wageningen, 42: 1-68 [host]
    Womersley (1940) Studies in Australian Acarina, Tetranychidae, Trichadenidae. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, 64: 233-265 [distribution; host; taxononmy]
    Reck (1947b) Genus Bryobia Koch (Tetranychidae) described on the data material from Georgia. Soobshcheniya Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR, 8(9-10): 653-660 [description; distribution; host]
    Pritchard & Baker (1955) A revision of the spider mite family Tetranychidae. Memoirs Series, San Francisco, Pacific Coast Entomological Society, 2: 472 p [host; taxononmy]
    Wainstein (1956a) On the fauna of spider mites (Tetranychidae) of Kazakhstan. Trudy Respublikanskoi Stantsii Zashchity Rastenii, Kazifilial Vasknil, 3: 70-83 [distribution]
    Wainstein (1956b) Fauna of tetranychoid mites in South Kazakhstan. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 35: 384-391 [description; distribution; host]
    Eyndhoven (1957b) Le Bryobia cristata de Dugès - Notulae ad Tetranychidas 5. Entomologische Berichten, Amsertdam, 17: 171-183 [distribution]
    Mathys (1957) Contribution à la connaissance de la systématique et de la biologie du genre Bryobia en Suisse romande. Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft, 30: 189-204 [distribution]
    Reck (1959) A key to the tetranychoid mites. Fauna Trans. Caucasia Akad. Nauk Gruz. S.S.R., Tbilissi, Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR, 1: 152 p [distribution; host]
    Livshits & Mitrofanov (1966) On the systematic position of the species of in the genus Bryobia C. L. Koch, 1836, and the description of five new species (Bryobiidae, Acariformes). Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 45: 836-849 [taxononmy]
    Balevski (1967) Tetranychid mites occuring on fruit crops. Sofia Izdat. Bulgar. Akad. Nauk. Inst. Zasht.Rast. Gara Kostinbrod.: 157 p [distribution]
    Manson (1967c) The spider mite family Tetranychidae in New Zealand. I. The genus Bryobia. Acarologia, 9 (1): 76-123 [distribution; host]
    Bozai (1970) Determination key for spider mites. Növényvédelen, (Plantprotection), 10: 455-460 [distribution]
    Livshits & Mitrofanov (1971a) The mites of the genus Bryobia C.L. Koch, 1836 (Acariformes, Bryobiidae). Trudy Gosudarstvennogo Nikitskogo Botanicheskogo Sada, 51: 1-112 [taxononmy]
    Anonymous (1974) Bryobia mites. Advisory Leaflet, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Food, 305: 1-7 [distribution]
    Jeppson et al. (1975) Mites injurious to economic plants. Berkeley, University of California Press: xxiv + 614 p [distribution]
    Gonzalez (1977) The tetranychoid mites of Chile: I. The subfamily Bryobiinae (Acari: Tetranychidae). Acarologia, 19 (4): 633-653 [distribution; host]
    Ma & Yuan (1980a) New species and new records of tetranychid mites from China I. (Acarina: Tetranychidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica, 5: 42-45 [distribution; host]
    Hatzinikolis (1983) Ten mites recorded for the first time in Greece. First panhellenic Congress of Plant Protection: 5 [distribution; host]
    Zaher (1984b) Survey and ecological studies of phytophagous and predaceous and soil mites in Egypt. I Phytophagous mites in Egypt (Nile valley and delta). Pl. 480 Programme U.S.A. Project No. EG-ARS-30: x+228 pp [distribution]
    Hatzinikolis (1986b) The genus Bryobia Dufour, 1832, in Greece (Acari : Tetranychidae). Biologia Gallo-hellenica, 12: 389-393 [distribution; host]
    El-Jaouani (1988) Contribution à la connaissance des acariens phytophages au Maroc et étude bio-écologique de Tetranychus evansi Baker et Pritchard (Acarina: Tetranychidae). Rabat, Maroc, Institut Agronomique et Vétérinaire Hassan II: 165 p + annexes [distribution]
    Strunkova (1988) On the tetranychid fauna of Kirgizia. Izvestiya Akademii Nauk Tadzhikskoi SSR (Biol.), 4: 32-37 [distribution]
    Kandeel et al. (1989) Morphological observations on Bryobia cristata (Acari: Tetranychidae) inhabiting some plants and effectiveness of some pesticides against it. Progress in Acarology. Channabasavanna, G.P., Viraktamath, C.A., Eds. Vol. 2: 43-45 [distribution]
    Vierbergen (1990) The spider mites of the Netherlands and their economic significance (Acarina: Tetranychidae). Proceedings of the Section Experimental and Applied Entomology of the Netherlands Entomological Society, 1: 158-164 [distribution]
    Hatzinikolis & Emmanouel (1991) A revision of the genus Bryobia in Greece (Acari: Tetranychidae). Entomologia Hellenica, 9: 21-34 [distribution; host]
    Bernini et al. (1995) Arachnida Acari. Minelli, A., Ruffo, S., La Posta, S., Checklist delle specie della fauna italiana, Commission of the European Communities, 24: 24-66 [distribution]
    Bolland et al. (1998) World catalogue of the spider mite family (Acari: Tetranychidae). Leiden, Brill Academic Publishers: 392 pp [distribution]
    Weeks & Breeuwer (2001) Wolbachia-induced parthenogenesis in a genus of phytophagous mites. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences, 268: 2245-2251 [distribution; host]
    Hallas & Gudleifsson (2004) Phenology of Bryobia cristata (Acari, Prostigmata) in hayfields in northern Iceland. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 33: 103-107 [distribution; host]
    Arabuli (2008) Tetranychoid mites (Acari: Tetranychoidea) fauna of Georgia. Proceedings of Georgian National Academy of Sciences, Biology Serie B, 6 (1-2): 86-96 [distribution; host]
    Ben-David et al. (2013) An annotated list of the spider mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Tetranychidae) of Israel. Israel Journal of Entomology, 43: 125-148 [distribution; host]
    Mladenović et al. (2013) New records of the tribe Bryobiini berlsese (Acari: Tetranychidae: Bryobiinae) from Serbia, with notes about associated predators (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Archives of Biological Sciences, 65 (3): 1199-1210 [distribution; host]
    Kontschán & Ripka (2017) Checklist of the Hungarian spider mites and flat mites (Acari: Tetranychidae and Tenuipalpidae). Systematic and Applied Acarology, 22 (8): 1199-1225 [distribution; host]
    Maric et al. (2018a) Biodiversity of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in Serbia: a review, new records, key to all known species. Acarologia, 58 (1): 3-14 [distribution; host]
    Maric et al. (2018b) Spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) in protected natural areas of Serbia. Systematic and Applied Acarology, 23 (10): 2033-2053 [distribution; host]
    Kamayev (2023a) Annotated list of Tetranychoidea mites (Acari: Trombidiformes) of Central European Russia. Acarina, 31 (1): 101-118 [distribution; host]
    Sammet et al. (2023) New records of arthropods from the priority Natura 2000 habitats in Estonian coastal areas. Check List, 19 (6): 1029-1048 [distribution]
    Hamadi & barbar (2025) Additional data on mites from Hama governorate (Syria) with two new record species of Erythraeidae and Tetranychidae families. Homs University Journal, Agricultural Sciences and Biotechnology Series, 47 (8): 87-102 [distribution]