Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) of the Cook Islands
Author
Ma, Min
Author
Fan, Qing-Hai
Author
Zhang, Zhi-Qiang
text
Zootaxa
2019
2019-07-25
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journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.5
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Amblyseius herbicolus
(
Chant, 1959
)
(
Figure 1D
)
Typhlodromus
(
Amblyseius
)
herbicolus
Chant, 1959: 84
.
Amblyseius
(
Amblyseius
)
herbicolus
.
—
Muma, 1961: 287
.
Typhlodromus herbicolus
.
—
Hirschmann, 1962: 23
.
Diagnosis.
This species is very similar to
Amblyseius fijiensis
in many aspects, but its female can be differentiated from the latter by having an expanded spermathecal atrium, the calyx of spermathecal apparatus long and narrow and gradually flaring terminally, and the major duct elongate and tubular. Cheliceral fixed digit with 11 teeth.
Specimens examined.
Rarotonga: Papua stream,
1 female
, ex. bitter melon (
Momordica charantia
) leaves,
22 October 2017
, by Q.-H. Fan;
3 females
, ex.
Sanchezia speciosa
leaves, same locality, date and collector
.
Remarks
. This species was originally described from bromeliad imported from
Portugal
in
USA
(
Chant 1959
). It is also known from more than 40 countries in the Afrotropical, Australasian, Neotropical, Oriental, and Palaearctic regions (
Moraes
et al
. 2004
;
Demite
et al
. 2018
). It is now recorded from the
Cook Islands
for the first time.