Aceria

{{Short description|Genus of mites}}

{{For|the wine grape|Cabernet Franc}}

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| image = Rust Mite, Aceria anthocoptes.jpg

| image_caption = Colored SEM of Aceria anthocoptes (rust mite)
White bar is 30 µm.

| taxon = Aceria

| authority = Keifer, 1944

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = 900+, see text

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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.{{cite journal |author=Huang, K. |year=2008 |title=Aceria (Acarina: Eriophyoidea) in Taiwan: five new species and plant abnormalities caused by sixteen species |journal=Zootaxa |volume=1829 |pages=1–30 |url=http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/z01829p030f.pdf |format=PDF excerpt}} A few are economically significant pests, while others are useful as agents of biological pest control of invasive plants such as rush skeletonweed (Chondrilla juncea), creeping thistle (Cirsium arvense), and field bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). There are over 900 species in the genus.{{cite journal|last1=Magud|first1=Biljana D|last2=Stanisavljević|first2=Ljubiša Ž|last3=Petanović|first3=Radmila U|title=Morphological variation in different populations of Aceria anthocoptes (Acari: Eriophyoidea) associated with the Canada thistle, Cirsium arvense, in Serbia|journal=Experimental and Applied Acarology|date=2017|volume=42|issue=3|pages=173–183|issn=1572-9702|doi=10.1007/s10493-007-9085-y|pmid=17611806}}

In 2017, a new species, Aceria pycnocomi was found on Pycnocomon rutifolium in Spain.{{cite journal |last1=Ripka |first1=Géza |last2=Sánchez |first2=Iñigo |title=A new Aceria species (Acari: Eriophyidae) from Spain on Pycnocomon rutifolium (Dipsacaceae) and supplementary descriptions of Aceria eucricotes and A. kuko from Lycium spp. (Solanaceae) |journal=Zootaxa |date=March 2017 |volume=4244 |issue=2 |pages=195–206 |doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4244.2.2|pmid=28610119 }}

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File:Aceria fraxini leaf galls.jpg]]

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File:Common broom afflicted by Broom gall mite.jpg) afflicted by Aceria genistae]]

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