Proprioseiopsis messor (Wainstein, 1960)

Tixier, Marie-Stephane, Allam, Latifa, Douin, Martial & Kreiter, Serge, 2016, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Morocco: new records, descriptions of five new species, re-descriptions of two species, and key for identification, Zootaxa 4067 (5), pp. 501-551 : 516

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6082037
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scientific name	Proprioseiopsis messor (Wainstein, 1960)
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Typhlodromus messor Wainstein, 1960: 688 .

Amblyseius messor .—Athias-Henriot, 1961: 425.

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) messor .—Ehara, 1966: 22; Ueckermann & Loots, 1988: 66. Amblyseius (Amblyseiulus) messor .—Arutunjan, 1970: 16.

Proprioseiopsis (Amblyseiulus) messor . — Karg, 1989: 212.

Proprioseiopsis messor .—Moraes et al., 2004: 180; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 89. Amblyseius (Amblyseius) apheles . — Van der Merwe, 1968: 121. Amblyseius lindquisti . — Schuster & Pritchard, 1963: 246.

This species has been observed world-wide, essentially on grass and sometimes in soil. It was reported from Morocco by McMurtry & Bounfour (1989) on Hordeum sp. and an unknown plant. Nothing is known of its biology.

Specimens examined: 2003, Guerbouss Mountain Pass on Helianthemum virgatum (Cistaceae) (1 female), Gorges of Zegzel on Echium sp. ( Boraginaceae ) (1 female).

Previous records: Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia and neighbouring areas, Azerbaijan, Canary Islands, Egypt (Abo-Shnaf & Moraes, 2014), France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Syria, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.