Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Egypt, with new records, descriptions of new species, and a key to species Author Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A. Author De, Gilberto J. text Zootaxa 2014 3865 1 1 71 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3865.1.1 b2dd0f47-267c-41ae-a38e-c725a60ade4e 1175-5326 287144 CA1F0F7D-25A3-4084-8F2C-99AF9A45DFCC Neoseiulus cucumeris (Oudemans) Typhlodromus cucumeris Oudemans, 1930 : 69 ; Nesbitt, 1951 : 23 ; Hirschmann, 1962 : 2 ; Spain & Luxton, 1971 : 187 . Typhlodromus thripsi MacGill 1939 : 310 . (synonymy by Evans, 1952 : 416 ; Chant, 1959 : 78 ; Schuster & Gonzalez, 1963 : 185 ; Schuster & Pritchard, 1963 : 277 ; Westerboer & Bernhard, 1963 : 609 ; Schicha, 1976 : 337 ; Chant et al ., 1978 : 1346 ). Typhlodromus bellinus Womersley, 1954 : 177 . (synonymy by Dosse, 1957 : 307 ; Schuster & Gonzalez, 1963 : 185 ; Schuster & Pritchard, 1963 : 277 ; Athias-Henriot, 1960 a : 297 ; 1966 : 207 ; Chant & Hansell, 1971 : 721 ; Chant et al ., 1978 : 1346 ; not synonym, according to Schicha, 1976 : 340 ). Typhlodromus ( Amblyseius ) cucumeris .— Chant, 1959 : 78 . Amblyseius ( Typhlodromopsis ) cucumeris .— De Leon, 1959 : 113 . Amblyseius ( Amblyseius ) cucumeris . — Wainstein, 1962 b : 16 ; Ehara, 1966 : 20 ; Ueckermann & Loots, 1988 : 147 . Amblyseius cucumeris . — Schuster & Pritchard, 1963 : 277 ; El-Badry, 1970 : 502 ; Livshitz & Kuznetsov, 1972 : 25 ; Beglyarov, 1981 : 39 ; Nasr & Abou-Awad, 1985 : 246 ; Zaher, 1986 : 111 ; Papadoulis & Emmanouel, 1991 : 52 ; Swirski et al ., 1998 : 105 . Typhlodromus ( Typhlodromus ) cucumeris .— Westerboer & Bernhard, 1963 : 609 . Amblyseius coprophilus Karg, 1970 : 289 . (synonymy by Karg, 1971 : 213 ; Chant & McMurtry, 2003 : 21 ). Neoseiulus cucumeris . — Moraes et al ., 1986 : 76 ; 2004 : 115 ; Beard, 2001 : 103 ; Congdon, 2002 : 23 ; Denmark & Edland, 2002 : 211 ; Papadoulis et al ., 2009 : 79 ; Ramadan et al ., 2009 : 118 ; Ferragut et al ., 2010 : 84 . Female (two specimens). Dorsal shield strongly reticulate; 351, 346 long and 182, 164 wide, with 17 pairs of setae. Setae j 1 18, 16 ; j 3 23, 21 ; j 4 13, 12 ; j 5 10, 9 ; j 6 13, 11 ; J 2 16, 14 ; J 5 13, 11 ; z 2 13, 12 ; z 4 13, 12 ; z 5 10, 8 ; Z 1 16, 15 ; Z 4 26, 24 ; Z 5 60, 57 ; s 4 18 , 17; S 2 21 , 19; S 4 21 , 19; S 5 26 , 25; r 3 23, 21 ; R 1 21, 19 . Dorsal setae smooth, except Z 4 and Z 5 , slightly serrate. Peritreme extending forward to level of j 3 . Venter. Sternal shield smooth with few lateral striae, with three pairs of setae and two pairs of lyrifissures. Distances between st 1 –st 1 33, 30 ; st 2 –st 2 60, 58 ; st 3 –st 3 65, 61 ; st 4 –st 4 70, 68 . Genital shield weakly striate; distance between st 5 –st 5 68, 67 . Ventrianal shield subpentagonal, reticulate; 117, 107 long, 96, 88 wide at ZV 2 level and 81, 75 wide at level of anus; with three pairs of pre-anal setae and a pair of pre-anal pores. Seta JV 5 39, 38 . Ventral setae smooth, except JV 5 , slightly serrate. Two pairs of metapodal plates. Spermatheca. Calyx of spermatheca saccular, 10, 9 long; atrium distinct. Gnathosoma. Corniculi slightly convergent distally; basal width of corniculus 4 , distance between bases of corniculi 8 . Movable cheliceral digit 31, 30 long, with one tooth; fixed digit 29, 28 long, with three teeth. Legs. Macroseta sharp-tipped: Sge IV 34, 33 ; Sti IV 33, 32 ; St IV 49, 44 ; chaetotaxy of genu II 2 , 2/ 0, 2 / 0, 1 ; genu III 1 , 2/ 1, 2 / 0, 1 . Specimens examined. Two females from mango leaves, at the Faculty of Agriculture Farm, Cairo University, Giza governorate, June 1980 (coll. M.A. Zaher). Previous records from Egypt . Fayoum governorate ( Romeih et al ., 2010 b ); Giza governorate (Zaher & El- Badry, 1962 ; El-Badry, 1970 ; Zaher, 1986 ; Romeih et al ., 2010 b ); unspecified governorate ( Chant, 1959 ). Remarks. Neoseiulus cucumeris was originally described from the holotype female collected in France . The original description was brief, only with measurements of the idiosoma and no illustration; complementary descriptions were listed by Demite et al . ( 2014 ) . Our measurements are close to those reported by Zaher ( 1986 ) for a single female, except s 4 ( 40 according to that author).