Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot)

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 : 704

Euseius stipulatus (Athias-Henriot)

Amblyseius stipulatus Athias-Henriot 1960a: 294 .

Typhlodromus stipulatus, Hirshmann 1962 .

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

Euseius stipulatus, Ferragut et al. 1985: 225 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 55, 2004a: 84 ; Chant & McMurtry 2005: 216. 2007: 123.

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

Previous records from Morocco — This species was recorded in many regions in Morocco and collected on several plants as reported by Tixier et al. (2016).

Specimens examined — 6 ♀♀ + 2 ♂♂ on Bryonia dioica Jacq. ( Cucurbitaceae ) collected in Ouled Abdellah citrus orchard in May 2017 ; 1 ♀ + 1 ♂ were collected on citrus leaves at Saouda orchard in September 2018.

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. Euseius stipulatus was classified by McMurtry and Croft (1997) as a specialized pollen feeder. This species feeds also on pest mites such as P. citri ( Ferragut et al. 1988, 1992), T. urticae ( Moyano et al. 2009) and eriophyid mites ( Ferragut et al. 1987) on many crops such as peach, avocado orchards, and vineyards ( Ferragut et al. 1983 ; Papaioannou-Souliotis et al. 1994 ; Ragusa 2006) and citrus ( Kreiter et al. 2010 ; Sahraoui et al. 2012).