Proprioseiopsis pentagonalis (Moraes & Mesa)

Moraes, Gilberto José De, Barbosa, Marina Ferraz De Camargo & Castro, Tatiane Marie Martins Gomes De, 2013, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from natural ecosystems in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 301-347 : 314

Proprioseiopsis pentagonalis (Moraes & Mesa)

Amblyseius pentagonalis Moraes & Mesa in Moraes et al., 1991: 127.

Proprioseiopsis pentagonalis .—Moraes et al., 2000: 251; 2004b: 186; Chant & McMurtry, 2005a:15; 2007: 89.

Specimens examined. Pariquera-Açu, October 2002, 1 female on Crepis japonica (L.) Benth.

Previous records. Brazil [States of Maranhão and Puauí (Moraes et al., 2004b) and São Paulo (Castro & Moraes, 2010)]; Colombia and Guadeloupe (Moraes et al., 2004).

Measurements of female (n= 1).

Dorsal shield 320 long and 305 wide. Setae j1 25, j3 25, j4 5, j5 5, j6 7, J5 10, z2 10, z4 10, z5 5, Z1 7, Z4 97, Z5 162, s4 72, S2 10, S4 10, S5 7, r3 20, R1 7. Distances between St1 - St3 57, St2 - St2 68, St5 - St5 67. Ventrianal shield 103 long, 88 wide at level of ZV 2 and 75 wide at anus level. Movable cheliceral digit 30 long, with three teeth; fixed cheliceral digit 31 long, with ten teeth. Calyx of spermatheca 50 long. Leg macrosetae: Sge I 27, Sge II 25, Sge III 24, Sge IV 55, Sti IV 35, St IV 52.

Remarks. The measurements of the single specimen collected fit the measurements of the original description and of the specimens from the Caribbean area provided by Moraes et al. (2000), except for the longer Z5, mentioned as 137 (134–139) in the original description and 89 in Caribbean specimens.