Paraphytoseius orientalis (Narayanan, Kaur & Ghai)

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 : 247

Paraphytoseius orientalis (Narayanan, Kaur & Ghai)

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) orientalis Narayanan, Kaur & Ghai 1960: 394 .

Paraphytoseius orientalis, Moraes et al. 1986: 105, 2004b: 162 , Chant & McMurtry 2003b:

220, 2007: 53.

Amblyseius ipomeai, Narayanan, Kaur & Ghai 1960: 394 (synonymy according to El­Banhawy 1984).

Paraphytoseius multidentatus, Swirski & Shechter 1961: 114 (synonymy according to Matthysse & Denmark 1981 in Denmark et al. 1999).

Paraphytoseius narayanani, Ehara 1967: 67 (synonymy according to Ehara & Ghai, in Ehara 1967).

This species belongs to the orientalis species group ( Chant and McMurtry 2003b). Our specimens with relatively shorter setae s4, Z4 and Z5, having a distinctly short, thick, spatulate macroseta on genu I belong to the species P. orientalis . This species is widely distributed in tropical and subtropical areas in South America, Africa and Asia. It belongs to a genus included in the large polyphagous generalist group named type III phytoseiid mites ( McMurtry and Croft

1997; McMurtry et al. 2013). Navasero and Navasero (2016) had studied the life history of P.

orientalis on the broad mite Polyphagotarsonemus ( latus ) (Banks) as prey and reported high predation rates on the eggs of P. latus , suggesting good potential for the control of this pest.

World distribution: Argentina, Brazil, Burundi, India, Japan, Kenya, La Réunion Island,

Madagascar Island, Martinique Island, Mauritius Island, Mayotte Island, Mozambique, Reunion

Island, Rwanda, Vietnam.

Specimens examined: 10 specimens (6 ♀♀, 1 ♂ and 3 imm.) collected during this study.

Moroni, Le Kalyptus Hotel (24 m aasl, lat. 11°40 ′ 58 ″ S, long. 43°15 ′ 45 ″ E), 1 ♂ and 3 ♀♀

on Lantana camara L. (Verbenacae) with eriophyid galls, 7/XII/2018 ; Moroni (51 m aasl,

lat. 11°41 ′ 01 ″ S, long. 43°15 ′ 55 ″ E), 1 ♀ and 2 imm. on Averrhoa bilimbi L. ( Oxalidaceae ),

9/XII/2018 ; Djoumoichongo (230 m aasl, lat. 11°48 ′ 34 ″ S, long. 43°17 ′ 37 ″ E), 1 imm.

on Annona muricata L. ( Annonaceae ) and 2 ♀♀ on Occimum gratissimum L. ( Lamiaceae ),

10/XII/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements fit well measurements in Ferragut and Baumann (2019) and Kreiter et al. (2020b, d, 2021 b). This species was described from Asia ( Narayanan et al. 1960) and present also in Mauritius ( Ferragut and Baumann 2019 ; Kreiter et al. 2018a ; Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020b), Mayotte (Kreiter et al.

2020a), Vietnam (Kreiter et al. 2020b), La Réunion Island ( Kreiter et al. 2020d) and Mohéli

Island ( Kreiter et al. 2021b).