Phytoseius woodburyi De Leon

de Souza, Izabel Vieira, Sa Argolo, Poliane, Junior, Manoel Guedes Correa Gondim, Moraes, Gilberto Jose de, Bittencourt, Maria Aparecida Leao & Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan, 2015, Phytoseiid mites from tropical fruit trees in Bahia State, Brazil (Acari, Phytoseiidae), ZooKeys 533, pp. 99-131 : 117

Taxon classification Animalia Mesostigmata Phytoseiidae

Phytoseius woodburyi De Leon

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) woodburyi De Leon, 1965: 130.

Phytoseius woodburyi : Moraes et al. 2004: 246.

Phytoseius woodburyi : Chant and McMurtry 2007: 131.

Specimens examined.

Fazenda Bela Vista, Cocos nucifera , XI-2007 (1♀), Psidium guajava VII-2007 (11♀).

Female.

Five specimens measured. Dorsal shield 279 (265-310) long, 145 (140-150) wide, j1 29 (28-31), j3 33 (33-35), j4 5 (5-6), j5 5 (5-6), j6 5 (5-6), J5 6 (5-8), z2 13 (13-15), z3 30 (28-33), z4 12 (10-13), z5 6 (5-8), Z4 87 (85-91), Z5 73 (68-78), s4 118 (110-125), s6 78 (73-82), r3 43 (40-46); distances between St1-St3 55 (53-58), St2-St2 58 (55-60) and St5-St5 58 (55-61); ventrianal shield 77 (65-99) long, 32 (28-45) wide at level of ZV2 and 39 (35-47) wide at level of anus; movable cheliceral digit 21 (18-25) long; fixed cheliceral digit 21 (20-23) long; calyx of spermatheca 8 (6-10) long; Sge IV 8 (8-9), Sti IV 49 (46-52), St IV 27 (24-30).

Remarks.

Measurements of the specimens collected are similar to those of the original description, except for the longer St IV (20 in the holotype). Specimens collected in this study have the ventrianal shield longer than reported by Gondim Jr. and Moraes (2001) for specimens from São Paulo state [53 (50-58) in the latter]. This is the first record of this species in Bahia.