Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Anjouan Island (Comoros Archipelago)
Author
Kreiter, Serge
CBGP, Institut Agro (SupAgro), INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
Author
Payet, Rose-My
CIRAD, Université de Montpellier, Unité Hortsys, Station de Bassin-Plat, 97410 Saint-Pierre, La
Author
Azali, Hamza Abdou
INRAPE, Moroni, Grande Comore, Union des Comores. & CBGP, Institut Agro (SupAgro), INRAE, CIRAD, IRD, Univ Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
text
Acarologia
2021
2021-01-20
61
1
62
83
http://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20214418
journal article
10.24349/acarologia/20214418
2107-7207
5394107
Paraphytoseius horrifer
(Pritchard & Baker)
Amblyseius
(
Ptenoseius
)
horrifer
Pritchard & Baker 1962: 295
.
Amblyseius horrifer
,
Meyer & Rodrigues 1966: 30
.
Amblyseius
(
Paraphytoseius
)
horrifer
, van der Merwe 1968: 169
.
Proprioseius
(
Paraphytoseius
)
horrifer
,
Karg 1983: 302
.
Paraphytoseius horrifer
,
Moraes
et al.
1986: 105
,
2004b: 152
;
Chant & McMurtry 2003b:
220,
2007: 53
.
Our specimens of
Paraphytoseius
should be placed the
orientalis
species group by the absence of setae
S5
(
Chant and McMurtry 2003b
). As suggested by
Chant and McMurtry (2003b)
and
Moraes
et al.
(2007)
, we consider that
P. horrifer
and
P. orientalis
are different valid species. All our specimens have long setae
s4
,
Z4
,
Z5
, and no distinctly short, thick, spatulate macroseta on genu I. They all belong consequently to the former species. This species is widely distributed in SubSaharan Africa and
Madagascar
. The biology
P. horrifer
of remains totally unknown. It was mentioned recently for the first time from several countries:
La Réunion
(
Kreiter
et al.
2020d
),
Mauritius
(
Kreiter and AboShnaf 2020b
),
Rodrigues
(
Kreiter and AboShnaf 2020a
) Islands and
Vietnam
(
Kreiter
et al.
2020c
).
World distribution
:
Benin
,
DR Congo
,
Ghana
,
India
,
Kenya
,
La Réunion Island
,
Madagascar Island
,
Malawi
,
Mozambique
,
Senegal
,
South Africa
,
Uganda
.
Specimens examined
:
36 specimens
(
34 ♀♀
and
2 ♂♂
) collected during this study.
Tsembehou
, inside the village (
446 m
aasl,
12°12
′
27
″
S
,
44°27
′
54
″
E
),
34 ♀♀
and
2 ♂♂
on
Clerodendrum speciosissimum
Van Geert ex Morren (Lamiaceae)
,
29/IX/2018
.
Remarks
: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements fit well with those mentioned by
Kreiter
et al.
(2020c
, d). This species described from Africa (
Pritchard & Baker 1962
) was first mention in the Indian Ocean from
La Réunion Island
(
Kreiter
et al.
2020d
) but seems to be present in
Rodrigues
,
Mauritius
and
Mayotte
(
Kreiter and AboShnaf 2020a
, b;
Kreiter
et al.
2020a
) and actually in at least one island of
Comoros
Archipelago. This is the most abundant species in
Anjouan Island
but all specimens were collected only in one sample site.