A new species of Galendromimus Muma from Brazil (Acari: Phytoseiidae), with a review of the tribe Galendromimini Chant & McMurtry
Author
Demite, Peterson R.
Author
Gondim, Manoel G. C.
Author
Lofego, Antonio C.
Author
Moraes, Gilberto J.
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Zootaxa
2014
3835
4
593
599
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3835.4.10
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1175-5326
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Galendromimus
Muma
Galendromimus
Muma, 1961
: 297
;
Muma
et al
., 1970
: 58
;
Chant & McMurtry, 1994
: 241
; 2007: 137.
Chanteius
(
Deleoneius
)
Wainstein, 1962
: 19
(synonymy according to
Chant & McMurtry, 1994
).
Nothoseius
De Leon, 1965
: 127
(synonymy according to
Chant & McMurtry, 1994
).
Typhlodromus
(
Galendromimus
)
.— van der
Merwe, 1968
: 63
.
Kampimodromus
(
Galendromimus
)
.—
Karg, 1983
: 305
.
Type
species:
Typhlodromus alveolaris
De Leon, 1967
Chant & McMurtry (1994)
included four species in this genus, and characterised it by the following attributes: setae
s6
and
Z1
present; setae
z3
,
S2
,
S4
and
R1
absent; some dorsal shield setae, especially
Z4
and
Z5
, elongate, thick and strongly serrate. Three other species are now placed in
Galendromimus
, including the new species described here. As previously pointed out for Galendromimini, the inclusion of the new species described in this paper in
Galendromimus
requires that
z
3
may occasionally be found in species of this group.
Additional characteristics of
Galendromimus
are: seta
Z1
present;
J2
,
S5
,
JV3
,
JV4
and
ZV3
present or absent (leading to five possible setal patterns in this small genus—Table 1); sternal and genital shields smooth; sternal shield lightly sclerotised; ventrianal shield subrectangular, constricted at level of
JV3
, mostly smooth anterior to anal opening and reticulate elsewhere, with four pairs of pre-anal setae (
JV1
,
JV2
,
JV3
and
ZV2
) and a pair of preanal pores of variable position and size; fixed cheliceral digit with few teeth, anteriad of
pilus dentilis
; leg macrosetae absent [differentiated seta on basitarsus IV of
G
. (
N
.)
borinquensis
, not much longer than neighboring setae]; spermatheca variable; and distal end of peritreme anteriad of
j3
[except
G
. (
G
.)
alveolaris
].
Chant & McMurtry (1994)
recognised two subgenera in this genus,
Galendromimus
(
Galendromimus
) Muma
and
Galendromimus
(
Nothoseius
) De Leon. The
latter has only one species,
G
. (
N
.)
borinquensis
(De Leon)
.