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.
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Zootaxa
2014
3865
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journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3865.1.1
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Neoseiulus sinaiticum
(Amitai & Swirski)
Amblyseius sinaiticum
Amitai & Swirski,
1982
:
63
;
Moraes
et al
.,
1986
:
30
.
Phytodromus sinaiticum
.—
Denmark
,
1993
:
112
.
Neoseiulus sinaiticum
.—
Chant & McMurtry,
2003
:
29
;
2007
:
31
;
Moraes
et al
.,
2004
:
144
.
Previous records from
Egypt
.
Sinai Peninsula (
Amitai & Swirski,
1982
).
Remarks.
No additional specimens of this species were found in this study. It was originally described from the
holotype
female, a
paratype
female and a
paratype
male collected in Wadi Hashabe, southwestern Sinai Peninsula,
Egypt
. The original description was detailed, with illustrations and setal measurements.