Typhlodromalus baillodi Kreiter, 2021

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Abo-Shnaf, Reham & Douin, Martial, 2021, New Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Mascareignes and Comoros Archipelagos (Indian Ocean): one new record, three new species groups and description of six new species and of six unknown males, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 845-889 : 864

Typhlodromalus baillodi Kreiter n. sp.

Zoobank: 7BDF4768-99F0-4CDE-A946-574CFB26D1A0 Classification. Typhlodromalus baillodi Kreiter n. sp. belongs to:

• the subfamily Amblyseiinae (absence of dorsolateral setae z3 and s6 and the caudoventral seta JV3),

• to the tribe Euseiini (sternal shield with median posterior projection, deutosternal groove> 5 µm in width, forward migration of pre-anal setae JV2 and ZV2),

• to the subtribe Typhlodromalina (chelicera of normal size and shape, with prominent teeth evenly distributed along fixed digit, peritreme usually extending to level of j1, deutosternal groove narrow, 4–7 µm width),

• to the genus Typhlodromalus (female ventrianal shield with more than one pair of preanal setae, GeI usually with a macroseta, GeII and III with macrosetae, leg IV with three macrosetae usually stout, often knobbed or blunt, male ventrianal shield with three pairs of pre-anal setae, most dorsal setae either setiform or thickened, thorn like, tapering distally, without terminal knobs, fixed digit with 6–12 teeth evenly distributed along the digit, BtI without erected seta, female ventrianal shield with three pairs of pre-anal setae, ratio s4 / Z1 <3.0: 1.0, dorsal setae of medium length subequal, dorsal shield ornamented in addition to anterolateral striations, seta Z4 longer than distance between its base and that of S4,

• to the peregrinu s species group as seta S5 is present ( Chant and McMurtry 2007) which includes 16 species ( Chant and McMurtry 2005a but incomplete): T. araucariae Gonçalves & Ferla , T. aripo De Leon , T. clavicus Denmark & Muma, T. erigeronus Denmark & Evans, T. etiennei (Kreiter & Ueckermann) , T. feresi Lofego, Moraes & McMurtry , T. feresisimilis Moraes, Barbosa & Castro , T. ingae Moraes, Barbosa & Castro , T. jucundus (Chant) , T. marmoreus (El-Banhawy) , T. olombo (Pritchard & Baker) , T. peregrinus (Muma) , T. planetarius (De Leon) , T. pumilus Denmark & Evans, T. rosayroi Denmark & Muma and T. simus Denmark & Muma.