Phytoseius finitimus Ribaga

Phytoseius finitimus Ribaga

Phytoseius finitimus Ribaga 1904: 178.

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) finitimus. — Wainstein, 1959: 1365.

Phytoseius (Pennaseius) finitimus. — Pritchard & Baker, 1962: 223. Pennaseius finitimus. — Schuster & Pritchard, 1963: 279.

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) finitimus. — Denmark, 1966: 16.

Phytoseius finitimus.—Chant, 1959: 108; Moraes et al., 2004: 252; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 129.

Reports on V. vinifera in Europe : France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Turkey. Reports on V. vinifera in non-European countries: Egypt, Tunisia, USA. Reports not on V. vinifera: Egypt, France, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, Turkey, USA.

Remarks. This species is mainly reported in Mediterranean countries, and is especially frequent in Israel and Greece. It has been observed mainly on shrubs. The individuals found in France were initially attributed to the species Phytoseius plumifer (Canestrini & Fanzago) and indicated under this species name in Kreiter et al., (2000). However, they were then re-attributed to the species P. finitimus (Kreiter et al., 2002). A big confusion between these two species has existed during a long time and a tentative solution has been proposed by Duso and Fontana (2002). We herein follow these authors and do not considered valid the synonymy between these species indicated in Moraes et al., (2004).