Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten

Kreiter, Serge, Amiri, Karima, Douin, Martial, Bohinc, Tanja, Trdan, Stanislav & Tixier, Marie-Stéphane, 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Slovenia (Acari: Mesostigmata): new records and first description of the male ofAmblyseius microorientalis, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 203-242 : 233

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten

Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten 1857: 104 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 246.

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri, Chant 1959: 64 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri, Moraes et al. 2004: 367 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 157.

This species is cosmopolitan but is the dominant species in vineyards and orchards in the western part of Europe. It has been introduced in various countries such as Australia and New Zealand for biological control purposes. It has been reported on a wide range of plants, essentially on cultivated and uncultivated shrubs and trees This species is an active predator of red and yellow spider mites and eriophyid mites mainly in orchards and vineyards and of the grape thrips Drepanothrips reuteri (Uzel) in France ( Serrano et al. 2004).

This species was one of the more abundant collected species within this survey.

This species was already recorded from Slovenia ( Miklavc 2006; Bohinc and Trdan 2013).

World distribution: Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Madeira Island, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, USA.

Specimens examined :: 112 ♀♀, 12 ♂♂ and 7 immatures. Ravni (aasl 300 m, lat. 45°56’44”N, long. 15°24’21”E), 7 ♀♀, 1 ♂ and 2 immatures on Vitis vinifera L. ( Vitaceae ), 19/VI/2018; Arnovo selo (aasl 192 m, lat. 47°58’07”N, long. 15°33’49”E), 9 ♀♀ and 1 immature on Malus domestica L. ( Rosaceae ) and 9 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂ and 1 immature on Tilia cordata Miller (Malvaceae) , 19/VI/2018; Bilje (aasl 72 m, lat. 45°53’60”N, long. 13°38’41”E), 4 ♀♀ and 1 immature on V. vinifera , 20/VI/2018; Dragonja (aasl 3 m, lat. 45°27’12”N, long. 13°39’43”E), 1 ♀ on V. vinifera , 21/VI/2019 ; Maribor, Plant Protection Institute (aasl 267 m, lat. 46°34’07”N, long. 15°38’12”E), 43 ♀♀ and 2 ♂♂ on M. domestica and 28 ♀♀, 6 ♂♂ and 1 immature on V. vinifera , 22/VI/2018; Pesnica (aasl 256 m, lat. 46°37’02”N, long. 15°40’58”E) , 3 ♀♀ and 1 immature on M. domestica , 22/VI/2018; Škofljica, Gumnišče 15 (aasl 305 m, lat. 45°58’15”N, long. 14°34’17”E), 1 ♀ on Carpinus betulus L. ( Betulaceae ) and 2 ♀♀ on Rubus fruticosus L. ( Rosaceae ), 18/VI/2019; Juršinci, Gabrnik 55 (aasl 301 m, lat. 46°28’43”N, long. 15°58’2”E), 1 ♀ on M. domestica and 1 ♀ on Rubus tomentosus Borkhausen (Rosaceae) , 20/VI/2019; Bled, Lake (aasl 478 m, lat. 46°22’4”N, long. 14°05’06”E), 2 ♀♀ on Acer pseudoplatanus L. ( Sapindaceae ), 21/VI/2019; Kranj (aasl 434 m, 46°16’6”N, 14°20’26”E), 1 ♀ on Picea abies (L.) H. Karsten ( Pinaceae ), 21/VI/2019.

Remarks: The measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Ferragut et al. (2010) for specimens from Spain and by Tixier et al. (2019) for specimens from France.