Euseius baetae (Meyer & Rodrigues)

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Fillâtre, Jacques & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2018, First records of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from one island of the Comoros Archipelago, Acarologia 58 (3), pp. 529-545 : 532

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24349/acarologia/20184256
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BABDD080-D2D0-46F6-8172-442298192D42
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4521497
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9F2A836C-FFAA-CC29-FE08-FAF5B123F822
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Euseius baetae (Meyer & Rodrigues)
status

Treatment

Euseius baetae (Meyer & Rodrigues) View in CoL

Amblyseius baetae ( Meyer & Rodrigues, 1966) : 28;

Euseius baetae (Meyer & Rodrigues) View in CoL , Moraes et al., 2001a: 11; Moraes et al., 1986: 37; 2004: 62; Chant & McMurtry 2005 b: 215; 2007: 120; El Banhawy & Knapp, 2011: 36;

Euseius kangwanensis Ueckermann & Loots, 1988: 85 View in CoL (synonym according to Ueckermann & Loots, 1988; Moraes et al., 2001b; El-Banhawy & Knapp, 2011).

The 200 species of the genus Euseius are considered as Type IV species, polliniphagous generalists ( McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry et al. 2013) and Euseius baetae is supposed to belong to that Type IV. The biology of E. baetae is however totally unknown.

Specimens examined — Mdé, INRAPE (long. 11°41′S, lat. 43°14′E, alt. 50 m), 1 ♀ on Manihot esculenta Crantz (Euphorbiaceae) , 2-02-2017; Moroni, Adoudja (long. 11°41′S, lat. 43°15′E, alt. 100 m), 2 ♀♀ on Plectranthus scutellarioides (L.) R.Br. ( Lamiaceae ), 2-02-2017; 1 ♀ on Alocasia macrorrhizos (L.) G.Don ( Araceae ), 2-02-2017.

Previous record — Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa.

Remarks ( Table 2) — Measurements of the 4 ♀♀ fit well with the measurements from the literature with slightly shorter dimensions in general.