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
8256
10.24349/acarologia/20204376
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Phytoseius crinitus
Swirski & Shechter
Phytoseius
(
Dubininellus
)
crinitus
Swirski & Shechter 1961: 102
.
Phytoseius crinitus
,
Amitai & Swirski 1966: 21
;
Swirski & Amitai 1966: 11
;
Denmark
1966:
66;
Moraes
et al.
1986: 220
,
2004: 236
;
Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129
.
This species belongs to the
horridus
species group (
Chant and McMurtry 1994
). This species was recorded in several countries of Asia, in
Burundi
,
Madagascar
(
Demite
et al.
2020
) and
La Réunion
(
Quilici
et al.
2000
;
Demite
et al.
2020
). The biology of this species remains totally unknown.
World distribution
:
Burundi
,
China
,
Hong Kong
,
India
,
Indonesia
,
Japan
,
Madagascar
Island,
Philippines
,
La Réunion Island
,
Singapore
,
Taiwan
.
Specimens examined
:
2 ♀♀
in total.
Quatre-Vents
(
293 m
aasl, lat.
19°44
′
12
″
S
, long.
63°27
′
19
″
E
),
1 ♀
on
Pandanus heterocarpus
Balfour (Pandanaceae)
,
12/XI/2018
;
Port-Mathurin
, City
Center
(
11 m
aasl, lat.
19°40
′
53
″
S
, long.
63°25
′
17
″
E
),
1 ♀
on
Ocimum
americanum
L. (
Lamiaceae
),
13/XI/2018
.
Remarks
: this species was reported before by
Ferragut and Baumann (2019)
from
Mauritius
, but it was already reported by
Quilici
et al.
(2000)
from Mascareignes Archipelago in
La Réunion Island
where
Kreiter
et al.
(2020c)
have recently recovered the species. Morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements in
Kreiter
et al.
(2020c)
.