22 ARTICLE INFO Article History Received: 16 /1 /2019 Accepted: 21 /3 /2019 ________________ Keywords Eriophyidae, Rhyncaphytoptus, Aceria, Diptilomiopus, Tegolophus and Ficus carica. Abstract: Superfamily Eriophyoidea (Acari: Prostigmata) is tiny haplodiploid mites and strictly phytophagous, making galls, forming nests and living freely on plants. During the present study a survey of eriophyoid mites associated with plants of the family Moraceae from Egypt was studied. The results indicated that eight eriophyoid species were collected. These are, two species were belonging to family Diptilomiopidae and the remaining six to family Eriophyidae. They were Diptilomiopus ficus Attiah, 1967 and Rhyncaphytoptus ficifoliae Keifer, 1939 (family: Diptilomiopidae) and Aceria fica (Cotté, 1920); Aceria benghalensis (Soliman and Abou– Awad, 1977), Aceria sycamori (Soliman and Abou–Awad, 1977); Neotegonotus sycamori Abou–Awad, 1984, Tegolophus niloticus Abou–Awad, 1984 and Aceria mori (Keifer, 1939) (family: Eriophyidae). Redescription of these eight species (different stages) are presented and illustrated based on females, males and immature stages. A key to eriophyoid mite species associated with family Moraceae in Egypt is provided. Introduction Family Moraceae includes about 1,500 species in 53 genera. Most of the species are on trees or shrubs of the tropics or subtropics, but a few species are indigenous to temperate regions. The most important groups of this family are Morus spp. and Ficus spp. (Venkataraman, 1972). Ficus carica L. has been cultivated for a long time in various places worldwide for its edible fruit. It is assumed to originate from Western Asia and spread to the Mediterranean by humans; it is also a good source of food for fruit–eating animals in the tropics (Zohary and Hopf, 2000). Up to date 121 eriophyoid species has been recorded from plants of the family Moraceae, 73 species of them was recorded on plants of genus Ficus (Amrine and de Lillo personal communication). Only eight eriophyoid species has been recorded from Moraceae in Egypt and described from females only (Soliman and Abou–Awad, Redescription and illustration of eight eriophyoid mites (Acari: Prostigmata: Eriophyoidea) with emphasis of their host plants from family Moraceae in Egypt Ashraf, S. Elhalawany¹; Ahmad, I. Amer² and Amira, E. Mesbah² ¹Fruit Trees Acarology Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. ²Cotton and Crops Acarology Research Department, Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center, Dokki, Giza, Egypt. Egyptian Journal of Plant Protection Research Institute www.ejppri.eg.net Egypt. J. Plant Prot. Res. Inst. (2019), 2 (1): 22-48