Phytoseius amba Pritchard & Baker, 1962

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Mouigni, Hadji, Douin, Martial, Tixier, Marie-Stéphane & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Grande Comore Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (2), pp. 241-273 : 258-259

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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, 2004b: 232 View in CoL , Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

This species belongs to the horridus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994) as setae

R1 and J2 are present. 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.

World distribution: Anjouan Island, Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, DR Congo, Grande Comore Island, Kenya, Madagascar Island, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria, Reunion

Island, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe.

Specimens examined: three specimens (6 ♀♀, 2 ♂♂ and 1 imm.) collected during this study. Moroni, Le Kalyptus Hotel (24 m aasl, lat. 11°40 ′ 58 ″ S, long. 43°15 ′ 45 ″ E), 5 ♀♀

and 2 ♂♂ on Clerodendrum speciosissimum Van Geert ex. Morren ( Verbenaceae ), 7/XII/2018 ;

Mdé, INRAPE (51 m aasl, lat. 11°44 ′ 12 ″ S, long. 43°14 ′ 59 ″ E), 1 ♀ and 1 imm. on Averrhoa bilimbi L. ( Oxalidaceae ), 11/XII/2018.

Remarks: measurements of the specimens collected during this study 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 those of Kreiter et al. (2020d) for specimens from La Réunion, with those of Kreiter et al. (2018b) for specimens from Grande Comore and with those of Kreiter et al. (2021a) for specimens from Anjouan

Island.

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Chant D. A., McMurtry J. A. 2007. Illustrated keys and diognoses for the genera and subgenera of the Phytoseiidae of the world (Acari: Mesostigmata). Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, 219 pp.

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

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Mesostigmata
Family	Phytoseiidae
Genus	Phytoseius