Phytoseius duplus Ueckermann & Loots, 1985

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 : 260

Phytoseius duplus Ueckermann & Loots

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) duplus Ueckermann & Loots 1985: 37 .

Phytoseius duplus, Moraes et al. 2004b: 237 , Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

This species orchards belongs to the horridus species group. Its biology is unknown. This is the second record of this species from Indian Ocean after Mauritius Island.

World distribution: Mauritius Island, South Africa.

Specimens examined: two specimens (2 ♀♀) collected during this study. Mdé, INRAPE

(51 m aasl, lat. 11°44 ′ 12 ″ S, long. 43°14 ′ 59 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Gmelina arborea Roxburgh ex. Smith

( Verbenaceae ), 6/XII/2018 ; Moroni (171 m aasl, lat. 11°40 ′ 47 ″ S, long. 43°16 ′ 27 ″ E), 1 ♀ on

Bidens pilosa L. ( Asteraceae ), 9/XII/2018.

Remarks: the measurements of specimens collected in Grande Comore Island are very close to those obtained by Ueckermann and Loots (1985) for the two specimens ( Table 7) and close also to those provided by Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf (2020b) for specimens from Mauritius

Island.