Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) moraesi Kreiter & Ueckermannn

Kreiter, Serge & Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A., 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Rodrigues Island (Acari: Mesostigmata), Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 449-468 : 463

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20204376
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4537665
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scientific name	Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) moraesi Kreiter & Ueckermannn
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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) moraesi Kreiter & Ueckermannn View in CoL

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) moraesi Kreiter & Ueckermann in Kreiter et al. 2002: 338 View in CoL .

The biology of this species found in La Réunion Island by Kreiter et al. (2002) on various host plants and then in French Caribbean Islands ( Mailloux et al. 2010; Kreiter et al. 2013) remains unknown.

World distribution: Guadeloupe, La Réunion Island.

Specimens examined: 4 ♀♀ in total. Port-Mathurin, City Center (11 m aasl, lat. 19°40 ′ 53 ″ S, long. 63°25 ′ 17 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Miscanthus sinensis Andersson (Poaceae) , 8/XI/2018; Samy (201 m aasl, lat. 19°42 ′ 28 ″ S, long. 63°24 ′ 24 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Citrus limon (L.) Burman ( Rutaceae ), 12/XI/2018; Allée Tamarin (71 m aasl, lat. 19°41 ′ 22 ″ S, long. 63°24 ′ 11 ″ E), 2 ♀ on Pittosporum balfouri Cufodontis (Pittosporaceae) , 12/XI/2018.

Remarks: several species are found both on La Réunion Island (in the Indian Ocean) and in the West Indies, probably because of reciprocal introductions certainly long time ago with slave markets and commercial exchanges between the two areas or because of introduction of plants in Antilles and La Réunion coming from the same African area than slaves. The measurements and description of the specimens collected fit very well with those given by Kreiter et al. (2002).

References

Kreiter S., Ueckermann E. A., Quilici S. 2002. Seven new phytoseiid species, with a new generic assignement and a key to the species of La Reunion Island (Acari: Mesostigmata). Acarologia, 42 (4): 335 - 350.

Kreiter S., Mailloux J., Tixier M. - S., Le Bellec F., Douin M., Guichou S., Etienne J. 2013. New phytoseiid mites of the French West Indies, with description of a new species, and new records (Acari: Mesostigmata). Acarologia, 53 (3): 285 - 303. doi: 10.1051 / acarologia / 20132095

Mailloux J., Le Bellec F., Kreiter S., Tixier M. - S., Dubois P. 2010. Influence of ground cover management