Phytoseius amba Pritchard & Baker, 1962

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Fillâtre, Jacques & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2018, First records of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from one island of the Comoros Archipelago, Acarologia 58 (3), pp. 529-545 : 540

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scientific name	Phytoseius amba Pritchard & Baker
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Phytoseius amba Pritchard & Baker View in CoL

Phytoseius (Pennaseius) amba Pritchard & Baker 1962: 224 View in CoL ; Blommers, 1976: 85;

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) amba View in CoL , Denmark, 1966: 49;

Typhlodromus (Pizytoseius) amba, Van der Merwe, 1968: 101 ;

Phytoseius amba, Swirski & Ragusa, 1978: 408 View in CoL ;

Pennaseius amba, Matthysse & Denmark, 1981: 352 ;

Phytoseius amba, Moraes et al., 1986: 210 View in CoL ; 2004: 232; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 129.

Species of the genus Phytoseius are supposed to belong to the Type III species ( McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry et al. 2013), i.e. a polyphagous generalist predator. However, the biology of Phytoseius amba remains totally unknown.

Specimens examined — Mdé, INRAPE (long. 11°41′S, lat. 43°14′E, alt. 50 m), 1 ♀ on Annona muricata L. ( Annonaceae ), 2-02-2017.

Previous Records — Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Kenya, Madagascar Island, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion Island, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Remarks ( Table 6) — The setae lengths seem very variable in this species following data of the literature. Measurements of the single adult female ( Table 6) agree well with measurements of the literature, especially with those of Ueckermann et al. (2007) obtained with a great number of specimens (29) from various countries in Africa, with the exception of longer j3 and z3, shorter st5-st5, ventrianal shield length and width at the level of anus and macrosetae of the basitarsus and telotarsus.

References

Blommers L. 1976. Some Phytoseiidae (Acarina: Mesostigmata) from Madagascar, with descriptions of eight new species and notes on their biology. Bijdragen tot Dierkunde, 46 (1): 80 - 106.

Chant D. A., McMurtry J. A. 2007. Illustrated keys and diagnoses for the genera and sub-genera of the Phytoseiidae of the World. Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA, 220 pp.

Denmark H. A. 1966. Revision of the genus Phytoseius Ribaga, 1904 (Acarina: Phytoseiidae). Fla Dep. Agric. Bull., 6: 1 - 105.

Matthysse J. G., Denmark H. A. 1981. Some phytoseiids of Nigeria (Acarina: Mesostigmata). The Fa Entomol., 64: 340 - 357. doi: 10.2307 / 3494585

McMurtry J. A., Croft B. A. 1997. Life-styles of phytoseiid mites and their roles in biological control. Ann. Rev. Entomol., 42: 291 - 321. doi: 10.1146 / annurev. ento. 42.1.291

McMurtry J. A., Moraes G. J. de, Sourasso N. F. 2013. Revision of the life styles of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) and implications for biological control strategies. Syst. Appl. Acarol., 18: 297 - 320. doi: 10.11158 / saa. 18.4.1

Moraes G. J. de, McMurtry J. A., Denmark H. A. 1986. A catalog of the mite family Phytoseiidae. References to taxonomy, synonymy, distribution and habitat. EMBRAPA - DDT, Brasilia, Brazil, 353 pp.

Pritchard A. E., Baker E. W. 1962. Mites of the family Phytoseiidae from Central Africa, with remarks on genera of the world. Hilgardia, 33: 205 - 309. doi: 10.3733 / hilg. v 33 n 07 p 205

Swirski E., Ragusa S. 1978. Three new species of phytoseiid mites from Kenya (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae). Zool. J. Linnean Soc., 63: 397 - 409. doi: 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1978. tb 02101. x

Ueckermann E. A., Zannou I. D., Moraes G. J. de, Oliveira A. R. de, Hanna R., Yaninek J. S. 2007. Phytoseiidd mites of the subfamily Phytoseiinae (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa. Zootaxa, 1658, 1 - 20.

Van der Merwe G. G. 1968. A taxonomic study of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari) in South Africa with contributions to the biology of two species. Entomol. Mem., South Africa Department of Agricultural Technical Services, 18: 1 - 198.