Published August 21, 2024
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Kuzinellus blairi
Authors/Creators
- 1. Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia
Description
Kuzinellus blairi (McMurtury & Moraes)
(Figures 11–14)
Paraseiulus blairi McMurtry & Moraes, 1991: 21.
Kuzinellus blairi. — Moraes et al., 2004: 271; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 144.
Specimen Examined: One female, wild grasses (Poaceae), 20°09.12 N, 41°17.01 E, Mandaq, Baha, 15 Sept. 2021, Coll. H.M.S. Mushtaq, H.M.S. Ali, and J.H. Mirza.
Distribution: Zimbabwe (McMurtry & Moraes, 1991), Saudi Arabia (present study).
Remarks: The newly collected specimen morphologically resembles the original description of the species K. blairi with some minor variations in setal lengths (Table 1).
Notes
Published as part of Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, Kamran, Muhammad & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2024, New species and new records of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Saudi Arabia, pp. 567-578 in Zootaxa 5496 (4) on page 571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/13617692
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 2021-09-15
- Verbatim event date
- 2021-09-15
- Scientific name authorship
- McMurtury & Moraes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Mesostigmata
- Family
- Phytoseiidae
- Genus
- Kuzinellus
- Species
- blairi
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- McMurtry, J. A. & Moraes, G. J. de (1991) Two new Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Zimbabwe with new records of other species. International Journal of Acarology, 17, 21 - 27. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647959108683882
- Moraes, G. J. de, McMurtry, J. A., Denmark, H. A. & Campos, C. B. (2004) A revised catalog of the mite family Phytoseiidae. Zootaxa, 434 (1), 1 - 494. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 434.1.1
- Chant, D. A. & McMurtry, J. A. (2007) Illustrated keys Keys and diagnoses Diagnoses for the Genera and Subgenera of the Phytoseiidae of the world World (Acari: Mesostigmata). Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, Michigan, 220 pp.