Phytoseius crinitus Swirski & Shechter, 1961

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 : 259-260

Phytoseius crinitus Swirski & Shechter

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) crinitus Swirski & Shechter 1961: 102 .

Phytoseius crinitus, Amitai & Swirski 1966: 21 , Swirski & Amitai 1966: 11, Denmark 1966:

66, Moraes et al. 1986: 220, 2004b: 236, Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

This species also belongs to the horridus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). The biology of this species remains totally unknown.

World distribution: Anjouan Island, Burundi, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar Island, Mauritius Island, Philippines, Réunion Island, Rodrigues Island, Singapore,

Characters Grande Comore Kenya (2) Characters Grande Comore Kenya (2)

(2) (this study) (2) (this study)

Dsl 243 – 250 221 (220 – 223) st1-st1 45 – 48 –

Dsw 145 – 150 141 (138 – 145) st2-st2 55 –

j1 20 18 (18 – 19) st3-st3 58 – 71 –

j3 24 – 25 25 st1-st5 103 – 108 –

j4 12 – 13 13 st4-st4 45 – 50 –

j5 13 – 14 14 (13 – 15) st5-st5 28 – 44 –

j6 15 – 16 14 (14 – 15) Vsl 98 – 118 86 (85 – 88) J2 15 15 Vsw ZV2 128 – 138 119 (118 – 120) J5 5 – 6 6 Vsw anus 63 – 75 –

r3 16 – 19 13 gv3 – gv3 21 –

R1 11 15 JV5 18 – 25 –

s4 33 – 35 36 (35 – 36) SgeI 14 – 15 14

S2 25 – 28 31 (30 – 31) SgeII 15 – 18 18

S4 18 – 20 19 (18 – 20) SgeIII 18 19 (19 – 20) z2 15 – 16 19 (18 – 20) StiIII 13 – 15 17 (16 – 18) z4 25 26 (25 – 28) SgeIV 25 25

z5 13 13 StiIV 19 – 20 20

Z1 15 16 (15 – 16) StIV 38 – 40 37 (35 –39) Z4 33 – 38 33 (33 – 34) Fdl 23 –

Z5 43 – 45 44(44 – 45) No teeth Fd 8 –

Mdl 20 – 22 –

No teeth Md? –

Shaft 15 – 18 15 Sources of measurements – Kenya: Moraes et al. (2006); –: not provided.

Taiwan.

Specimens examined: 2 ♀♀ in total. Moroni (51 m aasl, lat. 11°41 ′ 01 ″ S, long. 43°15 ′ 55 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ on Passiflora edulis Sims (Passifloraceae) , 9/XII/2018 ;

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements in Kreiter et al. (2020d) for specimens of La Réunion Island. This species was recorded in several countries of Asia, in Burundi, Madagascar ( Demite et al. 2021) and La Réunion ( Quilici et al. 2000). It was recently recorded in Mauritius Island by Ferragut and Baumann (2019) and in Anjouan Island by Kreiter et al. (2021a). It was however previously reported by Quilici et al. (2000) in the Indian Ocean from Mascareignes Archipelago in La Réunion Island where Kreiter et al. (2020d) have recovered the species in larger numbers.