Investigation on species diversity of eriophyoid mites in lands with different use in Maku city

Eriophyoidea mites are all herbivorous and are known as scabies mites or rust mites. These mites are plant pests and carriers of plant pathogens.  During the years 2020-2021, gardens, farms, and pastures of eight villages of Maku City were sampled. After identifying and counting the samples, considering the number of species and their relative abundance, species diversity indices, Shannon, Simpson, and Margalefs diversity indices were calculated at each station.In this research, a total of 35 species from 12 genera belonging to five tribes and two subfamilies were collected and identified from different Mako villages. It seems that contrary to the imagination, climate changes and low rainfall in 2019 have affected the species diversity of pasture plants, which has led to a decrease in the indicators of the diversity of the pasture ecosystem compared to other ecosystems that have a regular irrigation schedule. Handavar village had the highest value of Shannon-Wiener's index, and this village also showed the lowest Simpson's index, which means that the decrease in this index indicates high species diversity. Also, the Shannon-Wiener index of Eriophyoidea mites in the garden ecosystem is significantly higher at the probability level of 5% compared to the agricultural and pasture ecosystems. The increase in the diversity of these mites in the garden ecosystem creates this mentality resulting from previous studies that it is possible to witness a change in the behavior and preferences of eriophyoid mites over some non-productive plant species that are close to being on the side of fruitful plants