Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) kerkirae Swirski & Ragusa, 1976

CălugărK, Adina, StathakisK, Theodoros & Papadoulis, Georgios Th., 2023, Predatory mites of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in Danube Delta Biosphere Reserve (Romania), Acarologia 63 (1), pp. 58-66 : 64

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24349/w9fc-x845
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scientific name	Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) kerkirae Swirski & Ragusa, 1976
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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) kerkirae Swirski & Ragusa, 1976 View in CoL View at ENA

Material examined — Letea, meadow (11 May 2016) 1 ♀ leg. Călugăr, ICBI.

Length of setae — j1 25, j3 28, j4 13, j5 15, j6 18, J2 25, J5 10, z2 20, z3 25, z4 30, z5 15,

Z4 38, Z5 50, s4 28, s6 28, S2 30, S4 30, S5 30, r3 25, R 1 18.

World distribution — Croatia, France, Italy, Greece, Iran, Spain, Turkey ( Demite et al.

2022) and Romania (this study).

Hosts / Substrates — This species was described from Greece on Malus sylvestris (L.)

Mill. It is not a widely distributed species, and it has been collected only from a few host plants, mainly cultivated crops, such as Vitis spp. (Vitaceae) ( Castagnoli and Liguori 1987) and Ficus spp. (Moraceae) ( Demite et al. 2022).

Remarks — Morphological characters of the examined specimens fit with those of the original description.