Typhlodromina tropica (Chant)

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 : 37

Typhlodromina tropica (Chant)

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) tropicus Chant, 1959: 54 .

Paraseiulella tropica . — Muma, 1961: 294.

Typhlodromus tropicus .— Hirschmann, 1962: 2; Chant, 1965: 364; Chant & Baker, 1965: 8; Collyer, 1982: 187; Zaher, 1986: 122.

Typhlodromus aristidesi El-Banhawy, 1976: 532 . (synonymy by Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1983: 1047).

Typhlodromus tropicus aristidesi . — Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1983: 1048.

Typhlodromus tropicus tropicus .—Chant & Yoshida-Shaul,1983: 1047.

Typhlodromina tropicus . — Aponte & McMurtry, 1993: 154.

Typhlodromina tropica .— Ferragut & Peña-Estévez, 2003: 157; Moraes et al., 2004: 306; Guanilo et al., 2008a: 55 .

Previous records from Egypt. Giza, Matrouh and Sharkia governorates ( Zaher, 1986); unspecified governorate (Zaher & Shehata, 1969).

Remarks. No additional specimens of this species were found in this study. It was originally described from the holotype female collected in Ecuador. The original description was reasonably detailed, with illustrations of dorsal and ventral surfaces of the idiosoma and setal measurements; complementary descriptions were listed by Demite et al. (2014).