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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira 2008

  • 1. Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Agricultural Research Centre (ARC), 7 Nadi El-Seid Street,

Description

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. 2008: 59.

This species belongs to the large rhenanus species group (Chant and McMurtry 1994). Its biology is totally unknown and this is the first report of T. (A.) lobatus from Mauritius.

World distribution: Ghana.

Specimens examined: 2 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ in total. Chamouny (aasl 192 m, lat. 20°28 ′ 42 ″ S, long. 57°29 ′ 11 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Cupressus sempervirens L. (Cupressaceae), 31/X/2018; Morne-Brabant (aasl 249 m, lat. 20°22 ′ 05 ″ S, long. 57°29 ′ 31 ″ E), 1 ♀ and 1 ♂ on Chromolaena odorata (L.) R.M. King and H. Robinson (Asteraceae), 5/XI/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well measurements of the original description by Zannou, Moraes and Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. (2008) concerning specimens from Ghana, in Western Africa.

Notes

Published as part of Kreiter, Serge & Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A., 2020, New records of phytoseiid mites from Mauritius Island (Acari: Mesostigmata, pp. 520-545 in Acarologia 60 (3) on page 539, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204382, http://zenodo.org/record/4503446

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2018-10-31
Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Typhlodromus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira
Species
lobatus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2018-10-31
Taxonomic concept label
Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, 2008 sec. Kreiter & Abo-Shnaf, 2020

References

  • Ueckermann, E. A., Zannou, I. D., Moraes, G. J. de, Oliveira, A. R. de, Hanna, R., Yaninek J. S. 2008. Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Typhlodromini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa. Zootaxa, 1901: 1 - 122. doi: 10.11646 / zootaxa. 1901.1.1
  • Chant D. A., McMurtry J. A. 1994. A review of the subfamilies Phytoseiinae and Typhlodrominae (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Intern. J. Acarol., 20 (4): 223 - 310. doi: 10.1080 / 01647959408684022