Euseius sibelius, , Muma & Denmark, 1970

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Euseius sibelius (De Leon)

Amblyseius (Typhlodromalus) sibelius De Leon, 1962: 21 .

Euseius sibelius, Muma & Denmark, 1970: 98 ; Feres & Moraes, 1998: 128; Moraes et al.,

1986: 54; Moraes et al., 2004b: 83; Chant & McMurtry, 2005b: 216; Chant & McMurtry,

2007: 123.

Euseius subalatus De Leon, 1965: 127 (synonymy according to Muma & Denmark, 1970).

This species was already known from Guadeloupe and Les Saintes ( Moraes et al. 2000)

but not from Martinique. This is the first record of this species from this island. This species seems to be rather rare on companion plants as it was collected in few numbers. It was also found in association with T. evansi ( Moraes and McMurtry 1983) but probably an inefficient predator of that species. The biology of this species is totally unknown.

Specimens examined — 36 ♀♀ + 1 ♂ in total (12 ♀♀ measured but 1 ♂ in bad state not measured). Lamentin, CIRAD-CAEC station (long. 14°37′N, lat. 60°58′O, alt. 25 m), 5 ♀♀

+ 1 ♂ on N. wightii , 5 ♀♀ on M. atropurpureum and 26 ♀♀ on P. phaseoloides collected between 23-07-2012 and 18-09-2013.

Data from this study for Martinique, from Ferragut et al. (2011) for Dominican Republic, from Lofego et al. (2004, 2009) for Brazil (São Paulo) recalculated by the senior author of the present paper, from Guanilo et al. (2008a) for Peru, from De Leon (1962, 1965) for holotypes of Euseius sibelius collected in Florida and of Euseius subalatus , considered as a junior synonym of the former, collected in Puerto Rico.

Previous record — Brazil (Bahia, Ceará, Distrito Federal, Espirito Santo, Goiás, Mato

Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais, Paraiba, Paraná, Pernambuco, Piaui, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa

Catarina, Sao Paulo), Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guadeloupe, Honduras,

Jamaica, Les Saintes, Peru, Puerto Rico, USA (Florida), Venezuela.

Remarks — Measurements in the Table 6 show only slight variations. Measurements of the twelve females fit very well with those of the holotype females of E. sibelius and E. subalatus .

Measurements of females fit also very well with measurements of specimens collected in

Dominican Republic ( Ferragut et al. 2011), Brazil and Peru ( Guanilo et al. 2008a).