Typhlodromipsini Chant & McMurtry

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Zannou, Ignace D., Ueckermann, Eddie A., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2007, Species of the subtribes Arrenoseiina and Proprioseiopsina (Tribe Amblyseiini) and the tribe Typhlodromipsini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, Zootaxa 1448 (1), pp. 1-39 : 22

Tribe Typhlodromipsini Chant & McMurtry

Typhlodromipsini Chant & McMurtry, 2005b: 318 .

Chant & McMurtry (2005b) gave a full description of this Amblyseiinae tribe. Diagnostic characters for this tribe ( Chant & McMurtry, 2006) are: idiosoma with more than 25 pairs of setae, ratio between the length of seta s4 and that of seta Z1 smaller than 3.1, seta S4 present, dorsal shield entire, peritrematal shield fused anteriorly to the dorsal shield, peritreme extending forward to level of j1, sternal shield with 3 pairs of setae and usually without median posterior projection, females with 3 pairs of preanal setae and a pair of preanal pores, fixed cheliceral digit multidentate, and genua II and III rarely without macrosetae.

Of the 8 genera belonging to this subtribe ( Chant & McMurtry, 2005b), only Afrodromips Chant & McMurtry , Aristadromips Chant & McMurtry , Scapulaseius Karg & Oomen-Kalsbeek and Typhlodromips De Leon are known from sub-Saharan Africa.