Paragigagnathus tamaricis Amitai & Grinberg, 1971

ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, Acarologia 63 (3), pp. 691-724 : 697

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24349/v5of-5oe1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10786268
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scientific name	Paragigagnathus tamaricis Amitai & Grinberg
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Paragigagnathus tamaricis Amitai & Grinberg View in CoL

Paragigagnathus tamaricis Amitai & Grinberg 1971: 327 View in CoL ; Moraes et al. 2004a: 159 ; Chant & McMurtry 2003: 44, 2007: 33.

Paragigagnathus tawfiki ( Yousef 1974) View in CoL : 381 (Synonymy according to Chant & McMurtry 2003).

World distribution — Egypt, Iran, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and Tunisia.

Previous records from Morocco — This species is reported for the first time by Tixier et al. (2016) for Morocco and the Maghreb region. It was collected in the Oasis of Zagora on Tetraclinis articulata (Vahl) Mast. ( Cupressaceae ), at the Damon Oum Er Bia River on Tamarix africana Poir. ( Tamaricaceae ), in the Gorges of Zegzel on Tamarix communis L. ( Tamaricaceae ) ( Tixier et al. 2016). These authors suggest a narrow relationship between this species and plants of Tamarix genus.

Specimens examined — 7 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ on citrus leaves in July 2017, at Nour domain.

Remarks — The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Hajizadeh et al. (2010) for specimens from Iran.