Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) grewiae Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira, 2008

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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) grewiae Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) grewiae Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. 2008:

48.

This species belongs to the singularis species group as setae JV3 are absent and dorsal shield setae are short ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). The biology of that species is unknown. It was mentioned only from Kenya ( Ueckermann et al. 2008) only from one female.

World distribution: Anjouan Island, Kenya, Mayotte Island, Mohéli Island.

Specimens examined: three specimens (3 ♀♀) collected during this study. Mdé, INRAPE (51 m aasl, lat. 11°44 ′ 12 ″ S, long. 43°14 ′ 59 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Artocarpus heterophyllus Lamarck (Moraceae) , 6/XII/2018 ; Ivembeni, Banda Samlini (791 m aasl, lat. 11°29 ′ 22 ″ S, long.

43°19 ′ 36 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Solanum mauritianum Scopoli (Solanaceae) , 7/XII/2018 ; Moroni (171 m aasl, lat. 11°40 ′ 47 ″ S, long. 43°16 ′ 27 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Clidemia hirta (L.) Don ( Melastomataceae ),

9/XII/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens ( Table 8) fit well with measurements of the original description of Zannou, Moraes and Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. (2008) and with measurements of specimens from Mayotte

Island (Kreiter et al. 2020a), Anjouan Island ( Kreiter et al. 2021a) and Mohéli Island ( Kreiter et al. 2021b).