Phytoseius horridus Ribaga

Phytoseius horridus Ribaga 1904: 178; Chant 1959: 108; Moraes et al. 2004: 240; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) horridus, Chant & Athias-Henriot 1960: 221 .

Typhlodromus horridus, Hirschmann 1962: 62 .

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) horridus, Moraes et al. 1986: 222 .

Having seta R1 and J2 absent, this species belongs to the horridus species group of the genus Phytoseius (Chant and McMurtry 2007) .

The biology of this species seems totally unknown.

This species was already recorded and mentioned in a Slovenian paper (Bohinc et al. 2018), and in international conference paper (Trdan and Bohinc, 2016).

World distribution: Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain.

Specimens examined: 23 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ in total. Parecag (aasl 72 m, lat. 45°28’44”N, long. 13°37’49”E), 15 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ on Prunus domestica L. ( Rosaceae), 21/VI/2018; Škofljica, Gumnišče 15 (aasl 305 m, lat. 45°58’15”N, long. 14°34’17”E), 4 ♀♀ on Acer campestre L. ( Sapindaceae) and 1 ♀ on Carpinus betulus L. ( Betulaceae), 18/VI/2019; Dragonja (aasl 3 m, lat. 45°27’32”N, long. 13°39’4”E), 2 ♀♀ on Prunus pumila L. ( Rosaceae) and 1 ♀ on Ficus carica L. ( Moraceae), 19/VI/2019.

Remarks: The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Denmark (1966) and by Ferragut et al. (2010) for specimens from Spain.