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
60
2
449
468
journal article
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10.24349/acarologia/20204376
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Amblyseius passiflorae
Blommers
Amblyseius passiflorae
Blommers 1974: 145
;
Moraes
et al.
1986: 27
,
2004: 46
;
Denmark
& Muma 1989: 49
; Chant & McMurty 2004: 210, 2007: 80.
This species belongs to the
largoensis
species group, and the
arcus
species subgroup as the spermatheca is dish-, cup- or bell-shaped and to the
vasiformis
species complex as seta
Z5
is very long. Its biology is totally unknown.
This species was only known from the
type
series (five females and one male) (Blommers 1974). The original description was rather complete, providing comprehensive information on female and male morphology, and
Ferragut and Baumann (2019)
had added information on dorsal adenotaxy and poroidotaxy. This species was collected for the latter authors and thus already recorded from
Mauritius
, but of course not from
Rodrigues
.
World distribution
:
Madagascar
,
Mauritius
.
Specimens examined
:
50 ♀♀
and
15 ♂♂
in total.
Quatre-Vents
(
293 m
aasl, lat.
19°44
′
12
″
S
, long.
63°27
′
19
″
E
),
8 ♀♀
and
9 ♂♂
on
Mangifera indica
L. (
Anacardiaceae
), 1
♂
on
Cordia dichotoma
Forster (Boraginaceae)
and
1 ♀
and
1 ♂
on
Hibiscus rosa-sinensis
L. (
Malvaceae
),
12/XI/2018
;
Samy
(
201 m
aasl, lat.
19°42
′
28
″
S
, long.
63°24
′
24
″
E
),
1 ♀
on
Citrus limon
(L.) Burman (
Rutaceae
),
12/XI/2018
;
Mont Lubin
(
346 m
aasl, lat.
19°42
′
21
″
S
, long.
63°26
′
40
″
E
),
8 ♀♀
on
Hibiscus boryanus
de Candolle (Malvaceae)
,
10 ♀♀
and
1 ♂
on
Clematis mauritiana
Lamarck (Ranunculaceae)
,
5 ♀♀
on
Psidium guajava
L. (
Myrtaceae
), 3
♀♀
on
Litsea glutinosa
(Loureiro) Robinson (Lauraceae)
,
1 ♀
on
Urena lobata
L. (
Malvaceae
),
1 ♀
on
Rubus rosifolius
Smith (Rosaceae)
,
9 ♀♀
and
3 ♂♂
on
Litsea monopetala
(Roxburgh) Person (Lauraceae)
,
1 ♀
on
Syngonium podophyllum
Schott (Araceae)
and
2 ♀♀
on
Terminalia arjuna
(Roxburgh) Wight et Arnott (Combretaceae)
,
15/XI/2018
.
Remarks
: this species was reported before by
Ferragut and Baumann (2019)
. Morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements in Blommers (1974) and
Ferragut and Baumann (2019)
. This is one of the three more numerous species collected during this study and probably one of the more common species in the island, together with
A. largoensis
and
Euseius ovaloides
.