Transeius terminatus (Chant and Baker) Kreiter & Zriki & Ryckewaert & Pancarte & Douin & Tixier, 2018

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 : 373

Transeius terminatus (Chant and Baker) , new combination Kreiter and

Tixier

Amblyseius terminatus Chant & Baker, 1965: 25 ; Chant & McMurtry, 2004: 197; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 81.

Typhlodromalus terminatus, Moraes et al., 1986: 135 ; Denmark et al., 1999: 63; Moraes et al., 1986: 135; Moraes et al., 2004b: 205.

This species was described as an Amblyseius by Chant and Baker (1965), reported in this genus in the Phytoseiidae Database of Demite et al. (2017). We propose in this paper a new combination. This is the first record of this species for French Caribbean Islands. The description of Chant and Baker (1965) is now old, poor, with very minute drawings, difficult to use and there are no redescription with new drawings for that species. We re-describe here Transeius terminatus (Chant & McMurtry) new. comb. with new measurements, new details on the shape of some characters and new drawings. Species of the genus Transeius are considered as type III (generalist predators) by McMurtry et al. (2013) but the biology of this species remains totally unknown.