Phytoseius corniger Wainstein, 1959, 1362

Farazmand, Azadeh, Jalaeian, Mahdi, Kamali, Hashem, Saboori, Alireza, Tixier, MarieStéphane & Kreiter, Serge, 2023, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in four provinces of Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (1), pp. 21-58 : 38

Phytoseius corniger Wainstein, 1959

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) corniger Wainstein, 1959: 1362 .

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) corniger, Ehara 1966: 26 .

Phytoseius corniger, Moraes et al. 1986: 220, 2004: 235 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

Specimens examined – three ♀ ♀ and one ♂, three specimens measured. Guilan Province – three ♀ ♀ and one ♂, Rasht (3 m aasl, 49° 35′ 33′′ E, 37° 16′ 50.87′′ N), Anzali (22 m aasl, 49° 28′ 13.42′′ E, 37° 27′ 59.15′′ N), on Vitis vinifera L. ( Vitaceae ), in soil of fruit gardens (apple, pear, cherry), Rubus idaeus L. ( Rosaceae ) and Quercus sp. (Fagaceae) , 10.VII and 25.IX.2020.

World distribution – India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Moldova, Pakistan, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan.

Remarks – Rubus idaeus L. and Quercus sp. are new plant hosts for this mite in Iran, which has already been recorded from Guilan Province. Morphological characters agree well with those provided in Chant and Athias-Henriot (1960). All measurements ( Table 8) fit well with the previous measurements published by Chant and Athias Henriot (1960), Denmark (1966), Karg (1991) and Kolodochka (2006).