Neoseiulus paraibensis (Moraes & McMurtry)

Kreiter, Serge, Zriki, Ghais, Ryckewaert, Philippe, Pancarte, Clovel, Douin, Martial & Tixier, Marie-Stéphane, 2018, Phytoseiid mites of Martinique, with redescription of four species and new records (Acari: Mesostigmata), Acarologia 58 (2), pp. 366-407 : 393-396

Neoseiulus paraibensis (Moraes & McMurtry)

Amblyseius paraibensis Moraes & McMurtry, 1983: 135 ; Moraes & Mesa, 1988: 76; Moraes et al., 1991: 126;

Neoseiulus paraibensis, Moraes et al., 1986: 92 ; Moraes et al., 2004b: 137; Chant & Mc- Murtry, 2003: 23; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 29.

This species is known from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama and USA (Florida), so a wide area around the Caribbean Sea. This is however the first record of this species for the Caribbean Islands and so for French Caribbean Islands. It seems to be very rare. Moraes and McMurtry (1983) have collected and described this species from Musa sp.

in Brazil. But then, Moraes et al. (1991) have recorded first this species from Colombia on Oriza sativa . Rodriguez et al. (2009) and Quiros-McIntire and Rodriguez (2010) have found it in Cuba and Panama respectively also on rice on which it was the more frequent and abundant predator, associated in great numbers with Steneotarsonemus spinki Smiley. However , most of its biology remains totally unknown.

Specimens examined — Lamentin, CIRAD-CAEC station (long. 14°37′N, lat. 60°58′O, alt. 25 m), 2 ♀♀ on P. phaseoloides , 20-08 and 19-11-2012.

Previous Records — Brazil (Paraiba, Rio Grande do Sul, São Paulo), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Nicaragua, Panama, USA (Florida).

Remarks — Only two females were found. All measurements reported in the table 12

agree very well with those of the original description and other subsequent measurements of specimens of several locations given in the table 12.