Amblyseius Berlese

Karmakar, Krishna, Bhowmik, Sagarika & Sherpa, Choyang, 2017, Description of five new species and re-description of two species of Amblyseius (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from West Bengal, India, Zootaxa 4311 (1), pp. 39-61 : 40

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4311.1.3
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6009485
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scientific name	Amblyseius Berlese
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Genus Amblyseius Berlese View in CoL View at ENA

Amblyseius Berlese, 1914: 143 View in CoL .

Amblyseiopsis Garman, 1948: 17 . Type species Amblyseiopsis americanus Garman, 1948: 17 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) View in CoL .— Muma, 1961: 287.

Amblyseius (Amblyseialus) Muma, 1961: 287 . Type species Amblyseiopsis largoensis Muma, 1955: 266 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) View in CoL section Italoseius Wainstein, 1962: 15. Type species Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) italicus Chant, 1959: 70 .

Amblyseialus .— Muma, 1965: 245.

Proprioseiopsis (Peloiseius) Karg, 1983: 303 . Type species Amblyseius dorsatus Muma, 1961: 278 View in CoL .

Amblyseius (Multiseius) View in CoL Denmark & Muma, 1989: 82. Type species Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) andersoni Chant, 1957: 296 .

Amblyseius (Pauciseius) View in CoL Denmark & Muma, 1989: 132. Type species Amblyseius meridionalis Berlese, 1914: 144 View in CoL .

Type species — Zercon obtusus Koch, 1839 : 27.13, sensu Karg, 1960: 440.

This is the largest grouping of species in the subfamily Amblyseiinae , with 429 nominal species (Paterson et al., 2017). Chant & McMurtry (2007) stated that the females of this genus are diagnosed as having the dorsal shield lightly sclerotised, usually smooth; ventral shields usually smooth; female ventrianal shield of a variety of shapes, usually pentagonal but sometimes vase-shaped or divided into separate ventral and anal shields, and reduced in a few species so that there are fewer than three pairs of pre-anal setae inserted on the shield; fixed digit of chelicera usually with many teeth; legs II and III, and often leg I as well, with macrosetae; leg I often with a prominent erect seta on the base of the tarsus as well as a macroseta on the genu; spermatheca highly variable in form; males usually with three pairs of pre-anal setae arranged in a triangular pattern. Caudoventral seta ZV3 is variable and is absent in most of the species.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Mesostigmata
Family	Phytoseiidae