Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) asticus El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad

Ueckermann, Edward A., Zannou, Ignace D., De Moraes, Gilberto J., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2008, Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Typhlodromini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, Zootaxa 1901 (1), pp. 1-122 : 17

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.1901.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5134577
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03EDBF53-FFE8-FFEC-FF37-FF0A8E63FD1E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) asticus El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad
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Treatment

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) asticus El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad View in CoL

Typhlodromus asticus El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad, 1991: 217 View in CoL .

Amblydromella (Amblydromella) asticus, Denmark & Welbourn, 2002: 307 .

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) asticus, Moraes et al., 2004: 310 View in CoL ; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 152.

Remarks. Female with idiosomal setal pattern 12A:8A/JV:ZV; dorsal shield mostly smooth, with anterolateral striae; dorsal setae smooth and sharp-tipped, except Z5, serrate; setae r3 and R1 inserted on integument; seta ST3 inserted on sternal shield; posterior margin of sternal shield with a median lobe; ventrianal shield pentagonal and reticulate, with 4 pairs of pre-anal setae (seta JV3 present); calyx of spermatheca saccular; peritreme extending anteriorly to level of j1; with a macroseta on basitarsus of leg IV. Described from specimens collected at Arusha, Tanzania, on unspecified substrate. No additional specimens were collected in the present study.

World distribution. Tanzania.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Mesostigmata
Family	Phytoseiidae
Genus	Typhlodromus