Neoseiulus longispinosus (Evans)

Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A. & De, Gilberto J., 2014, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Egypt, with new records, descriptions of new species, and a key to species, Zootaxa 3865 (1), pp. 1-71 : 26

Neoseiulus longispinosus (Evans)

Typhlodromus longispinosus Evans, 1952: 413 ; Hirschmann, 1962: 3.

Amblyseius longispinosus .— Ehara, 1959: 288; Schicha, 1975: 103; Beglyarov, 1981: 36; Collyer, 1982: 192; Zaher, 1986: 110; Schicha, 1987: 97; Schicha & Corpuz-Raros, 1992: 62.

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) longispinosus . — Chant, 1959: 74.

Amblyseius (Typhlodromopsis) longispinosus .— Muma, 1961: 287.

Cydnodromus longispinosus . — Muma, 1961: 290.

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) longispinosus .— Ehara, 1966: 21; 1975: 29; Tseng, 1983: 57; Wu, 1984: 222.

Amblyseius womersleyi Schicha, 1975: 101 . (synonymy by Collyer, 1982: 192; not synonym, according to Tseng, 1983: 57).

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) longispinosus .— Gupta, 1985: 354; 1986: 116.

Neoseiulus longispinosus .— Tenorio et al., 1985: 304; Moraes et al., 1986: 85; 2004: 129; Beard, 2001: 85; Chant & McMurtry, 2003: 37.

Previous records from Egypt. Fayoum governorate ( Romeih et al., 2010b); Giza governorate ( Zaher, 1986; Romeih et al., 2010b).

Remarks. No additional specimens of this species were found in this study. Neoseiulus longispinosus was originally described from the holotype female and two paratype females collected in Indonesia. The original description was detailed, with illustrations and setal measurements; complementary descriptions were listed by Demite et al. (2014).