Proprioseiopsis ovatus ( Garman )

Negm, Mohamed W., Alatawi, Fahad J. & Aldryhim, Yousif N., 2012, A new species of Neoseiulus Hughes, with records of seven species of predatory mites associated with date palm in Saudi Arabia (Acari: Phytoseiidae), Zootaxa 3356, pp. 57-64 : 62

Proprioseiopsis ovatus ( Garman)

Amblyseiopsis ovatus Garman, 1958: 78 .

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) ovatus .— Chant, 1959: 90.

Amblyseiulus ovatus .— Muma, 1961: 278.

Proprioseiopsis ovatus .— Moraes et al., 2004: 184; Chant & McMurtry, 2005: 15; 2007: 89; Moraes et al., 2007: 19 ; Faraji et al., 2008: 109.

Specimens examined. One female, one male, Ouyaina, Riyadh, 01 November 2010, 24°54' N, 46°23' E, alt. 736 m, on Fig, Ficus carica L. ( Moraceae ) in a date palm orchard; 11 females, Al-Imam Mohamed Bin Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, 20 April 2011, 24°49' N, 46°42' E, alt. 657 m, on Sesuvium sp., in a date palm orchard; 12 females, 27 males, Unaiza, Qassim region, 25 May 2011, 26˚04' N, 43˚59' E, alt. 683 m, on Cynodon dactylon , in a date palm orchard; 3 females, Nadec company, Wadi Al-Dawaser, 06 July 2011, 20˚20' N, 45˚08' E, alt. 308 m, on Phoenix dactylifera .

Remarks. The holotype of Proprioseiopsis ovatus was collected on Cattleya sp. from Ecuador, intercepted at Brownsville, Texas, USA and deposited in United States National Museum. The specimens of P. ovatus in this study resemble those redescribed by Moraes et al. (2007) and Faraji et al. (2008), which were collected from sub- Saharan Africa and Spain, respectively. This is the first record of this species in Saudi Arabia. The species is also known from Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Ghana, Hawaii, Honduras, Kenya, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Taiwan, USA, Zimbabwe ( Moraes et al., 2004; Moraes et al., 2007); Spain ( Faraji et al., 2008).