Predatory mites from crops and pastures in South Africa: potential natural enemies of redlegged earth mite Halotydeus destructor (Acari: Penthaleidae)
Author
Halliday, R. B.
text
Zootaxa
2005
1079
11
64
journal article
50949
10.5281/zenodo.170355
ab581412-8bf4-4718-b555-e389591088a9
11755326
170355
Antennoseius boskopensis
Ryke
Antennoseius boskopensis
Ryke, 1962a
: 660
.
Specimens examined
: Site
9413
,
2 females
,
1 male
.
Antennoseius boskopensis
was described from humus in
South Africa
(
Ryke, 1962a
) and has apparently not been collected since. It is now reported from
3 specimens
from clover pasture containing grass and capeweed at Plettenberg Bay. Little is known of the biology of
Antennoseius
except that
A. janus
Lindquist and Walter
fed on nematodes,
Collembola
, and mites in laboratory culture (Lindquist & Walter, 1989).
A. boskopensis
is presumed to be predatory by analogy with that species.