Phytoseiid mites of Rodrigues Island (Acari: Mesostigmata)
Author
Kreiter, Serge
Author
Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A.
Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Agricultural Research Centre (ARC), 7 Nadi El-Seid Street, Dokii, 12611 Giza, Egypt.
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Acarologia
2020
2020-05-11
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449
468
journal article
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10.24349/acarologia/20204376
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Euseius ovaloides
(Blommers)
Amblyseius
(
Amblyseius
)
ovaloides
Blommers 1974: 147
.
Euseius ovaloides
Moraes
et al.
1986: 51
,
2004: 78
;
Chant & McMurtry 2005a: 215
,
2007:
121.
Euseius ovaloides
was described by Blommers (1974) from specimens collected on
Citrus hystrix
and
Persea americana
in
Madagascar
. Like all
Euseius
species, this species belongs to the
type
IV (polliniphagous generalist predators) of
McMurtry and Croft (1997)
and
McMurtry
et al.
(2013)
. The species had been occasionally recorded in
Madagascar
(Blommers 1974), Papua-New
Guinea
(
Schicha and Gutierrez 1985
),
Seychelles
(
Schicha 1987
),
La Réunion Island
(
Quilici
et al.
1997
,
2000
), Guadeloupe, Martinique and Marie-Galante (
Moraes
et
al.
2000;
Kreiter
et al.
2006
) on various plants, though its biology remains unknown. It is suspected to be a poor predator of tetranychid mites (
Gutierrez and Etienne 1986
), but can be considered as a potentially good predator of thrips and whiteflies. This is one of the most common species on
La Réunion Island
.
World distribution
: Guadeloupe,
Madagascar Island
, Marie-Galante, Martinique,
Papua New Guinea
,
La Réunion Island
,
Seychelles
Archipelago,
Vietnam
.
Specimens examined
:
102 ♀♀
,
13 ♂♂
and 3 im. in total.
Port-Mathurin
, City
Center
(
11 m
aasl, lat.
19°40
′
53
″
S
, long.
63°25
′
17
″
E
),
10 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
Terminalia cattapa
L. (
Combretaceae
),
12 ♀♀
on
Ricinus communis
L. (
Euphorbiaceae
),
1 ♀
on
Artocarpus altilis
(Parkinson) Fosberg (Moraceae)
, 2 im. on
Allamanda cathartica
L. (
Apocynaceae
),
8/XI/2020
;
1 ♀
on
Ziziphus mauritiana
Lamarck (Rhamnaceae)
,
2 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
Codiaeum variegatum
(L.) Jussieu (
Euphorbiaceae
);
3 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
Acalypha wilkesiana
Müller Argoviensis (Euphorbiaceae)
,
9/XI/2018
;
1 ♀
on
Polyscias scutellaria
(Burman) Fosberg (Araliaceae)
,
11 ♀♀
and
2 ♂♂
on
Bougainvillea
sp. (
Nyctaginaceae
) and
10 ♀♀
on
Duranta erecta
L. (
Verbenaceae
),
11/XI/2018
;
1 ♀
and
2 ♂♂
on
Litchi chinensis
Sonnerat (Sapindaceae)
,
14/XI/2018
;
Baie aux huitres
, Front Sea (
8 m
aasl, lat.
19°41
′
40
″
S
, long.
63°24
′
30
″
E
), 2
♀♀
and 1 im. on
Carica papaya
L. (
Caricaceae
),
5 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
P. scutellaria
,
3 ♀♀
on
Morinda citrifolia
L. (
Rubiaceae
),
9/XI/2018
;
Anse aux Anglais
(
2 m
aasl, lat. 19°40
′
33
″
S, long.
63°26
′
05
″
E
),
2 ♀♀
on
Tamarindus indica
L. and
4 ♀♀
and
2 ♂♂
on
Ceasalpinia pulcherrima
(L.) Swartz (
Caesalpiniaceae
),
11/XI/2018
;
Port Sud-Est
,
Sea Front
(
2 m
aasl, lat.
19°44
′
36
″
S
, long.
63°25
′
17
″
E
),
13 ♀♀
on
R. communis
,
11/XI/2018
;
Allée Tamarin
(71
m aasl, lat.
19°41
′
22
″
S
, long.
63°24
′
11
″
E
),
6 ♀♀
and
2 ♂♂
on
R. communis
and
4 ♀♀
on
C. papaya
,
12/XI/2018
;
Plaine-Caverne
(
45 m
aasl, lat.
19°41
′
02
″
S
, long.
63°25
′
11
″
E
), 1
♀
on
C. papaya
,
14/XI/2018
;
Petite-Butte
(
80 m
aasl, lat.
19°45
′
06
″
S
, long.
63°23
′
08
″
E
),
1 ♂
on
Ixora
sp. (
Rubiaceae
),
14/XI/2018
;
Mont Lubin
(
346 m
aasl, lat.
19°42
′
21
″
S
, long.
63°26
′
40
″
E
),
1 ♀
on
Hibiscus boryanus
de Candolle (Malvaceae)
,
2 ♀♀
on
R. communis
and
6 ♀♀
on
Terminalia arjuna
(Roxburgh) Wight et Arnott (Combretaceae)
,
15/XI/2018
;
Graviers
(
5 m
aasl, lat.
19°43
′
37
″
S
, long.
63°28
′
59
″
E
),
1 ♀
on
Passiflora edulis
Sims (Passifloraceae)
,
16/XI/2020
.
Remarks
: this species was reported from several countries of the world especially from
Madagascar
,
Seychelles
Archipelago and
La Réunion Island
(
Quilici
et al.
2000
;
Kreiter
et
al.
2020c). This species has recently been reported from
Vietnam
(
Kreiter
et al.
2020b
). Morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements in
Kreiter
et al.
(2020b)
. This is the most numerous species collected during this study and just like
La Réunion
, probably one of the most common species in the
Island
, with
A. largoensis
and
A. passiflorae
.