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Neoseiulus longispinosus Evans

Description

Neoseiulus longispinosus (Evans)

Typhlodromus longispinosus Evans, 1952: 413; Evans, 1953: 465; Womersley, 1954: 177; Ehara, 1958: 55. Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) longispinosus. Chant, 1959: 74.

Amblyseius longispinosus. Corpuz & Rimando, 1966: 129; Schicha, 1975: 103. Neoseiulus longispinosus. Gupta, 1978: 334; Moraes et al., 1986: 85; Moraes et al., 1989: 129; Moraes et al., 2000: 245; Beard, 2001: 85.

Specimens examined. Jarabacoa (Cordillera Central), 30-IX-2008, one male on Rubus sp. (Rosaceae).

Remarks. This species has previously been recorded from Australia, China, Egypt, Guadeloupe, Hawaii, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Les Saintes, Malaysia, Marie-Galante, Martinique, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Russia, Saint Barthélémy, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The measurements of the single male collected agree well with those provided by Moraes et al. (2000).

Notes

Published as part of Ferragut, Francisco, Moraes, Gilberto Jose & Navia, Denise, 2011, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) of the Dominican Republic, with a re-definition of the genus Typhloseiopsis De Leon, pp. 37-53 in Zootaxa 2997 on page 41, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.201690

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Neoseiulus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Evans
Species
longispinosus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Evans, G. O. (1952) On a new predatory mite of economic importance. Bulletin of Entomological Research, 43, 397 - 401.
  • Evans, G. O. (1953) On some mites of the genus Typhlodromus Scheuten, 1857, from S. E. Asia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 6, 449 - 467.
  • Womersley, H. (1954) Species of the subfamily Phytoseiinae (Acarina, Laelaptidae) from Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology, 2, 169 - 191.
  • Ehara, S. (1958) Three predatory mites of the genus Typhlodromus from Japan (Phytoseiidae). Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 31, 53 - 57.
  • Chant, D. A. (1959) Phytoseiid mites (Acarina: Phytoseiidae). Part I. Bionomics of seven species in southeastern England. Part II. A taxonomic review of the family Phytoseiidae, with descriptions of thirty-eight new species. Canadian Entomologist, Supplement 12, 1 - 166.
  • Corpuz, L. A. & Rimando, L. (1966) Some Philippine Amblyseiinae (Phytoseiidae: Acarina). The Philippine Agriculturist, 50, 114 - 136.
  • Schicha, E. (1975) A new predacious species of Amblyseius Berlese from strawberry in Australia, and A. longispinosus (Evans) redescribed (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society, 14, 101 - 106.
  • Gupta, S. K. (1978) Some Phytoseiidae from south India with descriptions of five new species. Oriental Insects, 12, 327 - 338.
  • de Moraes, G. J., McMurtry, J. A. & Denmark, H. A. (1986) A catalog of the mite family Phytoseiidae. References to taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and habitat. EMBRAPA - DDT, Brasilia, Brazil, 353 pp.
  • de Moraes, G. J., Kreiter, S. & Lofego, A. C. (2000) Plant mites (Acari) of the French Antilles. 3. Phytoseiidae (Gamasida). Acarologia, 40, 237 - 264.
  • Beard, J. (2001) A review of Australian Neoseiulus Hughes and Typhlodromips De Leon (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Amblyseiinae). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 15, 73 - 158.