Published September 6, 2022 | Version v1
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Paraamblyseius Muma 1962

  • 1. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India. & anamika _ kar 7 @ rediffmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5318 - 8308
  • 2. Department of Agricultural Entomology, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur- 741252, Nadia, West Bengal, India.

Description

Genus Paraamblyseius Muma, 1962: 8

Paraamblyseius Muma

Paraamblyseius Muma, 1962: 8.

Type species: Paraamblyseius lunatus Muma, 1962:8.

Chant and McMurtry, 2007 classified the genus as dorsal shield round, broad, heavily sclerotized, brownish in color, densely reticulate, dorsal setae approximately equal in length, sternal shield much wider than long, ventrianal shield strongly reticulate, very broad, with 3 to 4 pairs of preanal setae and all but one species with seta ZV3 absent, with either one enlarged metapodal plate or usual two.

Notes

Published as part of Kar, Anamika & Karmakar, Krishna, 2022, Description of nine new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Sikkim, a north eastern States of India, pp. 201-237 in Zootaxa 5182 (3) on page 218, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5182.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7052935

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Paraamblyseius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Muma
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Paraamblyseius Muma, 1962 sec. Kar & Karmakar, 2022

References

  • Muma, M. H. (1962) New Phytoseiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata) from Florida. The Florida Entomologist, USA, 45, 1 - 10. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3492897
  • Chant, D. A. & McMurtry, J. A. (2007) Illustrated keys and diognoses for the genera and subgenera of the Phytoseiidae of the world (Acari: Mesostigmata). West Bloomfield, USA, Indira Publishing House. 219 pp.