Phytoseius crinitus Swirski & Shechter, 1961

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Anjouan Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 62-83 : 74

Phytoseius crinitus Swirski & Shechter

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) crinitus Swirski & Shechter 1961: 102 .

Phytoseius crinitus, Amitai & Swirski 1966: 21 ; Denmark 1966: 66 ; Swirski & Amitai 1966: 11 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 220, 2004: 236; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

As the previous species, this species belongs also to the horridus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). It was recorded in several countries of Asia, in Burundi, Madagascar ( Demite et al. 2020) and La Réunion ( Quilici et al. 2000). Its biology remains totally unknown. It was recently recorded in Mauritius Island by Ferragut and Baumann (2019).

World distribution: Burundi, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar Island, Philippines, la Réunion Island, Singapore, Taiwan.

Specimens examined: a single ♀ specimen collected during this study. Pomoni, exit of the village (34 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 01 ″ S, 44°24 ′ 52 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Hibiscus tiliaceus L. ( Malvaceae ), 30/XI/2018.

Remarks: this species was the more numerous species of Phytoseius collected in Mauritius by Ferragut and Baumann (2019) and Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf (2020b). It was reported for the first time by these authors from Mauritius, but was already reported by Quilici et al. (2000) from Mascareignes Archipelago in La Réunion Island where Kreiter et al. (2020d) had recovered the species, and from Rodrigues Island ( Kreiter and abo­Shnaf 2020a). Morphological and morphometric characters of our specimens fit well with those provided by Ueckermann et al. (2007) and Kreiter et al. (2020d).