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''Aceria'' is a
genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
mite Mites are small arachnids (eight-legged arthropods). Mites span two large orders of arachnids, the Acariformes and the Parasitiformes, which were historically grouped together in the subclass Acari, but genetic analysis does not show clear e ...
s belonging to the family Eriophyidae, the gall mites. These tiny animals are
parasites Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson ha ...
of
plant Plants are predominantly photosynthetic eukaryotes of the kingdom Plantae. Historically, the plant kingdom encompassed all living things that were not animals, and included algae and fungi; however, all current definitions of Plantae exclu ...
s. Several species can cause blistering and galls, including erineum galls. A few are economically significant
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, while others are useful as agents of biological pest control of
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s such as rush skeletonweed (''Chondrilla juncea''), creeping thistle (''Cirsium arvense''), and field bindweed (''Convolvulus arvensis''). There are over 900 species in the genus.)


Selected species

* '' Aceria aloinis'' – aloe mite * ''
Aceria anthocoptes ''Aceria anthocoptes'', also known as the russet mite, rust mite, thistle mite or the Canada thistle mite, is a species of mite that belongs to the family Eriophyidae. It was first described by Alfred Nalepa in 1892. ''Aceria anthocoptes'' can ...
'' – rust mite, russet mite * '' Aceria banatica'' Vidovic, B. (2011)
A new ''Aceria'' species (Acari: Eriophyoidea) on ''Echinops ritro'' L. subsp. ''ruthenicus'' (M.Bieb.) Nyman (Asteraceae) from Serbia and a supplement to the original description of ''Aceria brevicincta'' (Nalepa 1898).
''Zootaxa'' 2796, 56–66.
* '' Aceria bipedis'' * '' Aceria calaceris'' – western maple erineum mite * '' Aceria calystegiae'' * '' Aceria campestricola'' * '' Aceria capreae'' * ''
Aceria carmichaeliae ''Aceria'' is a genus of mites belonging to the family Eriophyidae, the gall mites. These tiny animals are parasites of plants. Several species can cause blistering and galls, including erineum galls. A few are economically significant pests, ...
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Aceria chondrillae ''Aceria chondrillae'' (chondrilla gall mite, skeletonweed gall mite) is a gall forming deuterogynous, eriophyid (mite) often used as a biological control of the noxious weed, ''Chondrilla juncea'' (Rush skeletonweed), a highly competitive herba ...
'' – skeletonweed gall mite, chondrilla gall mite * '' Aceria clianthi'' * '' Aceria depressae'' * '' Aceria diospyri'' * '' Aceria elongata'' – crimson erineum mite * '' Aceria erinea'' * '' Aceria eriobotryae'' * '' Aceria ficus'' * '' Aceria fraxini'' – ash bead gall mite * '' Aceria fraxinicola'' * '' Aceria fraxinivora'' * '' Aceria gallae'' * '' Aceria genistae'' * '' Aceria gersoni'' * '' Aceria gleicheniae'' * '' Aceria guerreronis'' * '' Aceria hagleyensis'' * '' Aceria healyi'' * '' Aceria iteina'' * '' Aceria jasmini'' * '' Aceria jasminoidis'' * '' Aceria korelli'' * '' Aceria kuko'' * '' Aceria labiatiflorae'' (syn. ''A. oregani'') * '' Aceria lanyuensis'' * '' Aceria litchii'' * '' Aceria litseae'' * '' Aceria lycopersici'' * '' Aceria malherbae'' – bindweed gall mite * '' Aceria mangiferae'' * '' Aceria manukae'' * '' Aceria mayae'' * '' Aceria melicopis'' * '' Aceria melicyti'' * '' Aceria microphyllae'' * '' Aceria mikaniae'' * '' Aceria monoica'' * '' Aceria nervisequa'' * '' Aceria parvensis'' * '' Aceria pimeliae'' * '' Aceria pipturi'' * '' Aceria plagianthi'' * '' Aceria pobuzii'' * '' Aceria pseudoplatani'' * '' Aceria roxburghianae'' * '' Aceria rubifaciens'' * '' Aceria sacchari'' * '' Aceria serratifoliae'' * '' Aceria sheldoni'' – citrus bud mite * '' Aceria shepherdiae'' * '' Aceria simonensis'' * '' Aceria spicati'' * '' Aceria strictae'' * '' Aceria sylvestrae'' * '' Aceria taiwanensis'' * '' Aceria tenuifolii'' * '' Aceria titirangiensis'' * '' Aceria tosichella'' * '' Aceria tulipae'' * '' Aceria victoriae'' * '' Aceria waltheri'' * '' Aceria virosae'' * '' Aceria yushania'' * '' Aceria zoysima''


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* * Eriophyidae Animals described in 1944 Taxa named by Hartford H Keifer Trombidiformes genera {{Trombidiformes-stub