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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Neoseiulus longispinosus
(Evans)
Typhlodromus longispinosus
Evans 1952: 413
,
1953: 465
;
Womersley 1954: 177
;
Ehara 1958:
55.
Typhlodromus
(
Amblyseius
)
longispinosus
,
Chant 1959: 74
.
Amblyseius longispinosus
,
Corpuz & Rimando 1966: 129
;
Schicha 1975: 103
.
Neoseiulus longispinosus
,
Moraes
et al.
1986: 85
,
2000: 245
,
2004: 129
;
Chant & McMurtry
2003a: 37,
2007: 29
.
This species belongs to the
barkeri
species group and the
womersleyi
species subgroup as the calyx is markedly constricted at the junction with the atrium that is deeply forked at the junction with the major duct which with atrium and calyx are not of the same width (
Chant and McMurtry 2003a
).
This species is distributed in many countries of the world, mainly in tropical areas (
Moraes
et al.
2000
;
Mailloux
et al.
2010
;
Kreiter
et al.
2013
,
2018 a
, c;
Demite
et al.
2020
). It was found in low numbers in Guadeloupe, Martinique and
La Réunion
except for studies on companion plants in citrus orchards (
Mailloux
et al.
2010
;
Kreiter
et al.
2013
,
2018c
; Le Bellec
et al.
, unpub. data). This species seems to be more common on weeds with populations of tetranychid mites.
Neoseiulus longispinosus
, a
type
II phytoseiid predatory mite, as is
N. californicus
(
McMurtry
et al.
2013
)
, had received increasing attention in Asia for the control of different spider mites (of
Eutetranychus
,
Oligonychus
, and
Tetranychus
) since 2010 (
Nusartlert
et al.
2011). The feeding, development, predation, cannibalism, intra-guild predation and behaviour had thus been extensively studied by several authors (e.g.,
Luong
et al.
2017
) for pest control purposes.
Neoseiulus longispinosus
is well-known as a BCA sell in several countries in the world for the management of spider mites. The recent results of
Huyen
et
al.
(2017) showed at least in controlled laboratory conditions,
N. longispinosus
is a potential biological control agent against the citrus red mite,
Panonychus citri
(McGregor)
.
World distribution
: This species is distributed in many countries of the world, mainly in tropical areas.
Specimens examined
:
17 ♀♀
+
2 ♂
in total.
Baie aux huitres
(
8 m
aasl, lat. 19°41
′
40
″
S, long.
63°24
′
30
″
E
),
3 ♀♀
on
Solanum nigrum
L. (
Solanaceae
) and
1 ♀
on
Nerium oleander
L. (
Apocynaceae
),
9/XI/2018
;
Anse aux Anglais
(
2 m
aasl, lat.
19°40
′
33
″
S
, long. 63°26
′
05
″
E),
5 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
Lagenaria siceraria
(Molina) Standley (Cucurbitaceae)
,
11/XI/2018
;
Port Sud-Est
, Sea Front (
2 m
aasl, lat.
19°44
′
36
″
S
, long.
63°25
′
17
″
E
),
6 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
Solanum melongena
L. (
Solanaceae
),
11/XI/2018
;
Port-Mathurin
, City
Center
(
11 m
altitude above sea level = aasl, lat.
19°40
′
53
″
S
, long.
63°25
′
17
″
E
),
1 ♀
on
Ocimum americanum
L. (
Lamiaceae
),
13/XI/2018
;
Mont Lubin
(
346 m
aasl, lat.
19°42
′
21
″
S
, long.
63°26
′
40
″
E
), 1
♀
on
Malvastrum coromandelianum
(L.) Garcke (
Malvaceae
),
15/XI/2018
.
Remarks
: measurements of specimens of
Rodrigues
females and males overlap with those obtained for populations of various countries, especially for specimens from
La Réunion Island
(
Kreiter
et al.
2020c
).