Chanteius contiguus (Chant)

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Anjouan Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 62-83 : 74-75

Chanteius contiguus (Chant)

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) contiguus Chant 1959: 29 .

Typhlodromus (Diadromus) contiguus, Athias­Henriot 1960: 62 .

Typhloseiopsis contiguus, Muma 1961: 294 .

Chanteius (Chanteius) contiguus, Wainstein 1962: 9 .

Typhlodromus contiguus, Hirshmann 1962: 2 .

Typhlodromus (Typhloseiopsis) contiguus, Pritchard & Baker 1962: 222 .

Diadromus contiguus, Chant & Yoshida­Shaul 1986: 2030 , Moraes et al. 1986: 184.

Chanteius contiguus, Moraes et al. 2004b: 261 ; Chant & McMurtry 1994: 239.

Chanteius lieni ( Tseng 1976) : 97 (synonymy according to Chant & Yoshida­Shaul 1986).

This species belongs to the contiguus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994) and its biology remains totally unknown.

World distribution: China, Hong­Kong, Japan, Madagascar, Philippines, Singapore.

Specimens examined: 11 specimens (10 ♀♀ and 1 ♂) collected during this study. Moutsamoudou, Chitsanguani (34 m aasl, 12°09 ′ 34 ″ S, 44°24 ′ 20 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Lantana camara L. ( Verbenaceae ), 28/XI/2018 ; Tsembehou, inside the village (446 m aasl, 12°12 ′ 27 ″

S, 44°27 ′ 54 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Mangifera indica L. ( Anacardiaceae ), 4 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ on Sygygium aromaticum (L.) Merrill and Perry ( Myrtaceae ), 29/XI/2018 ; Chandra, inside the village (448

m aasl, 12°11 ′ 56 ″ S, 44°27 ′ 52 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Vitis vinifera L. ( Vitaceae ), 29/XI/2018 ; Pomoni,

exit of the village (34 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 01 ″ S, 44°24 ′ 52 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Psidium cattleianum Afzelius ex Sabine (Myrtaceae) , 2 ♀♀ on Piper nigrum L. ( Piperaceae ) and 1 ♀ on Sygygium jambos

(L.) Alston ( Myrtaceae ), 30/XI/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters our specimens fit well with those of numerous descriptions and redescriptions available in the literature, especially those by

Blommers (1976) for specimens from Madagascar. This species was reported only from

South­East Asia and Madagascar. This is the second report of this species in the Indian Ocean outside Madagascar after Mayotte Island ( Kreiter et al. 2020a).