Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot)

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 : 225-226

Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot)

Amblyseius stipulatus Athias-Henriot 1960 a: 294 .

Typhlodromus stipulatus, Hirshmann 1962 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) stipulatus, Ueckermann & Loots 1988: 110 .

Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot) , Ferragut et al. 1985: 225; Moraes et al. 1986: 55; 2004: 84; Chant & McMurtry 2005b: 216; 2007: 123.

This species was described from Algeria ( Athias-Henriot 1960). This species is mainly known from the south of the Western Palearctic region. It is a very common species reported from many plants, including crops such as peach, avocado orchards and vineyards. It is especially abundant in citrus orchards ( Ragusa 1977; Ferragut et al. 1983; Papaioannou-Souliotis et al. 1994; Ragusa 2006; Kreiter et al. 2010; Sahraoui et al. 2012). Several studies have shown its ability to feed on pollen but also on pests such as T. urticae and P. citri or eriophyid mites ( Ferragut et al. 1992; Santaballa et al. 1994; Abad-Moyano et al. 2009; Pina et al., 2012). This species was already recorded and mentioned in a Slovenian paper ( Bohinc et al. 2018) but it is the first mention of that species in an international paper for Slovenia.

World distribution: Algeria, Azores, Canary Islands, France, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Madeira Island, Montenegro, Morocco, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, USA.

Specimens examined: 23 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂ and 10 immatures in total. Izola-Pivol (aasl 30 m, lat. 45°32’27”N, long. 13°40’51”E), 6 ♀♀, 1 ♂ and 1 immature on Prunus persica L. ( Rosaceae ), 1 ♂ and 1 immature on Ulmus minor Miller (Ulmaceae) , 3 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂ and 3 immatures on Pyrus communis L. ( Rosaceae ) and 1 ♀ on Juglans regia (Juglandaceae) , 21/VI/2018; Parecag (aasl 72 m, lat. 45°28’44”N, long. 13°37’49”E), 7 ♀♀ and 2 immatures on Prunus domestica L. ( Rosaceae ), 21/VI/2018; Sečovlje, Parecag 15 (aasl 10 m, lat. 45°28’50”N, long. 13°37’49”E), 1 ♀ and 1 immature on Prunus cerasus L. ( Rosaceae ), 19/VI/2019; Sečovlje, 58a (aasl 3 m, lat. 45°28’43”N, long. 13°37’28”E), 1 ♀ and 1 immature on Aesculus hippocastanum L. ( Hippocastanaceae ), 19/VI/2019; Dragonja (aasl 3 m, lat. 45°27’32”N, long. 13°39’04”E), 1 ♀ and 1 immature on Prunus pumila L. ( Rosaceae ), 19/VI/2018; Bertoki (aasl 28 m, lat. 45°32’55”N, long. 13°47’13”E), 1 ♀ on P. persica and 1 ♀ on Salix daphnoides Villars (Salicaceae) , 19/VI/2018; Purissima (aasl 50 m, lat. 45°34’21”N, long. 13°46’31”E), 1 ♀ on Capsicum annuum L. ( Solanaceae ), 11/VII/2019.

Remarks: The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Ferragut and Escudero (1997) and by Ferragut et al. (2010) for specimens from Spain.