Arrenoseius Wainstein

El-Banhawy, E. M. & Knapp, M., 2011, Mites of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese from Kenya (Acari: Mesostigmata) 2945, Zootaxa 2945 (1), pp. 1-176 : 29

Genus Arrenoseius Wainstein

Amblyseius (Arrenoseius) Wainstein, 1962a: 12 .

Amblyscutus Muma, 1961: 286 . Type species: Amblyseius grandis Berlese, 1914: 144 .

Amblyseius (Megadromus) Wainstein, 1962a: 14 . Type species: Amblyseius grandis Berlese, 1914: 144 .

Athiasia Muma & Denmark, 1968: 233 . Type species: Typhlodromus cesi Muma, 1965: 254 .

Fundiseius Muma & Denmark , in Muma et al., 1970: 71.

Arrenoseius . — Moraes et al., 2004: 55.

Type species: Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) palustris Chant, 1960 .

Diagnosis. Dorsal shield rotund, strongly sclerotised; ventral shield sclerotised, reticulated, usually much wider than long, some dorsal setae markedly longer than others; fixed digit of chelicera with from few to many teeth, commonly less than seven teeth; legs I–III without macrosetae, leg IV usually with three short macrosetae, male with the spermatophoral process of the heel-and-toe variant or L-shaped; spermatheca usually with the atrium elongate, some with atrium bifurcate or vacuolated, calyx almost without exception saccular ( Chant & McMurtry, 2004).