Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) hartlandrowei Evans, 1958

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Mouigni, Hadji, Douin, Martial, Tixier, Marie-Stéphane & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Grande Comore Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (2), pp. 241-273 : 262-264

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) hartlandrowei Evans

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) hartlandrowei Evans 1958: 580­581 , Chant 1959: 60.

Clavidromus hartlandrowei, Muma 1961: 296 .

Typhlodromus (Neoseiulus) hartlandrowei, Pritchard & Baker 1962: 222 .

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) hartlandrowei, Moraes et al. 2004b: 328 , Chant & McMurtry

2007: 155, Ueckermann et al. 2008: 50.

This species belongs to the bergi species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). The biology of this species is unknown. This is the first mention of this species outside the African continent. The male was unknown until our study but one male has been collected and will be described in a following paper.

World distribution: Anjouan Island, DR Congo, Mohéli Island, Nigeria, Uganda.

Specimens examined: two specimens (1 ♀ and 1 imm.) collected during this study. Mdé, INRAPE (51 m aasl, lat. 11°44 ′ 12 ″ S, long. 43°14 ′ 59 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Mangifera indica L. ( Anacardiaceae ), 6/XII/2018 ; Mvouni, University of Comoros (434 m aasl, lat. 11°43 ′ 11 ″ S, long. 43°16 ′ 31 ″ E), 1 im. on Ricinus communis L. ( Euphorbiaceae ), 6/XII/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens ( Table 9 ) fit well with measurements of the original description given by Evans

(1958), those given by Ueckermann et al. (2008) concerning specimens from Africa and those of specimens from Anjouan ( Kreiter et al. 2021a) and Mohéli ( Kreiter et al. 2021b) Islands.