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 10.11646/zootaxa.3865.1.1 b2dd0f47-267c-41ae-a38e-c725a60ade4e 1175-5326 287144 CA1F0F7D-25A3-4084-8F2C-99AF9A45DFCC Typhlodromus ( Typhlodromus ) pyri Scheuten Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten, 1857 : 111 ; Hirschmann, 1962 : 2 ; Schuster & Pritchard, 1963 : 213 ; El-Badry, 1970 : 498 ; Kolodochka, 1978 : 56 ; Beglyarov, 1981 : 28 ; Collyer, 1982 : 187 ; Moraes et al ., 1986 : 246 ; Zaher, 1986 : 125 ; Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1987 : 1782 ; Miedema, 1987 : 56 ; Karg, 1991 : 33 ; 1993: 217; Denmark , 1992b : 6 ; Tuovinen, 1993 : 103 ; Congdon, 2002 : 8 . Gamasus vepallidus Koch, 1839 : 22 . (synonymy by Vitzthum, 1941: 767; Radford, 1950 : 27 ; Womersley, 1954 : 172 ; not synonym, according to Nesbitt, 1951 : 7 ). Typhlodromus tiliae Oudemans, 1929 : 14 . (synonymy by Nesbitt, 1951 : 18 ; Dosse, 1961 : 322 ; Chant et al. , 1974 : 1276 ; 1978b: 1347; Karg, 1971 : 221 ; 1982: 206; not synonym, according to Abbasova, 1970 : 45 ; Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1987 : 1788 ; Chant & McMurtry, 2007 : 157 ). Typhlodromus ( Typhlodromus ) pyri .— Chant, 1959 : 62 ; Ehara, 1966 : 19 ; Moraes et al ., 2004 : 364 ; Papadoulis et al ., 2009 : 141 ; Ferragut et al ., 2010 : 150 . Typhlodromus tubifer Wainstein, 1961 : 157 .—(Synonymy according to Abbasova, 1980 : 832 ; not synonym, according to Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1987 : 1785 ). Female (two specimens). Dorsal shield strongly reticulate; 351, 348 long and 174, 172 wide, with 17 pairs of setae. Setae j 1 31, 29; j3 29; j4 21; j5 23; j6 29; J 2 31, 29; J 5 10, 8; z2 23; z 3 31, 29; z 4 31, 29; z5 23; Z4 52, 49; Z5 81, 73; s4 39 , 36; s6 44 ; S2 55 , 52; S4 44 , 42; r3 36, 34; R1 21. Dorsal setae smooth, except Z4 and Z 5 , slightly serrate. Peritreme extending to level of j3 . Venter. Sternal shield smooth, with few lateral striae, with two pairs of setae and two pairs of lyrifissures. Distances between st1–st1 57, 55; st2–st2 62, 60; st3–st3 73, 65; st4–st4 86, 68. Genital shield smooth, with lateral extentions; distance between st5–st5 70, 65. Ventrianal shield subpentagonal, reticulate; 119, 112 long, 94, 81 wide at ZV2 level and 81, 78 wide at level of anus; with four pairs of pre-anal setae and no pores. Seta JV5 65, 55. Ventral setae smooth. Two pairs of metapodal plates. Spermatheca. Calyx of spermatheca cup-shaped, 18 long; atrium distinct. Gnathosoma. Corniculi parallel to each other; basal width of corniculus 3, distance between bases of corniculi 8. Movable cheliceral digit 30, 29 long, with two teeth; fixed digit 30 long, with three teeth. Legs. Macroseta blunt: Sge IV 31, 29; Sti IV 34, 29; St IV 56, 49; chaetotaxy of genu II 2 , 2/1, 2/0, 1; genu III 1 , 2/1, 2/0, 1. Specimens examined. One female from mango leaves, at the Faculty of Agriculture Farm, Cairo University, Giza governorate, September 1977 (coll. M.A. Zaher); one female from castor bean leaves, at same locality, Decemmber 1977 (coll. M.A. Zaher). Previous records from Egypt . Fayoum governorate ( Romeih et al ., 2010b ); Giza governorate ( El-Badry, 1967a , 1970 ; Zaher et al ., 1973 ; Zaher, 1986 ; Romeih et al ., 2010b ); Ismailia governorate ( Zaher, 1986 ); unspecified governorate (Zaher & Shehata, 1969; Zaher et al ., 1970). Remarks. This species was originally described from Germany . The original description was very brief, without illustrations or measurements; complementary descriptions were listed by Demite et al . (2014) , including redescriptions based on specimens collected in Egypt (Zaher & Shehata, 1969; El-Badry, 1970 ; Zaher, 1986 ). Measurements of the females examined are close to those reported by Chant & Yoshida-Shaul (1987) for the neotype specimen (except S2 , 40 according to the authors); measurements of specimens examined also fit the corresponding ranges given by Ferragut et al . (2010) (except S2 , 35–44 according to that authors).