Published March 23, 2026 | Version v1
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Paraphytoseius orientalis

  • 1. Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 - 8502, Japan & Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt
  • 2. NARO headquarters, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 - 8517, Japan
  • 3. Institute of Plant Protection, NARO, Morioka, Iwate 020 - 0123, Japan
  • 4. Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 - 8502, Japan & Emeritus Professor, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 - 8502, Japan & Laboratory of Ecological Information, Graduate School of Agriculture, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 - 8502, Japan

Description

Paraphytoseius orientalis (Narayanan, Kaur & Ghai, 1960)

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) orientalis Narayanan et al., 1960: 394.

Amblyseius (Paraphytoseius) narayanani Ehara, 1967b: 70.

Paraphytoseius santurcensis Chant & McMurtry, 2003b: 217.

Paraphytoseius orientalis.— Chant & McMurtry, 2003b: 217; Moraes et al., 2004: 313; Demite et al., 2025.

Distribution: Mie & Okinawa.

Plants: Tithonia rotundifolia, tea and eggplant.

Notes

Published as part of Negm, Mohamed W., Toyoshima, Shingo, Kishimoto, Hidenari & Amano, Hiroshi, 2026, Phytoseiid mites of Japan (Acari: Mesostigmata), pp. 51-85 in Zootaxa 5782 (1) on page 58, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5782.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/19181174

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References

  • Narayanan, E. S., Kaur, R. B. & Ghai, S. (1960) Importance of some taxonomic characters in the family Phytoseiidae Berl. 1916 (predatory mites) with new records and descriptions of species. Proceeding of the National Institute of Science of India, 2613, 384-394.
  • Ehara, S. (1967 b) Phytoseiid mites from Okinawa Island (Acarina: Mesostigmata). Mushi, 40, 67-82.
  • Chant, D. A. & McMurtry, J. A. (2003 b) A review of the subfamily Amblyseiinae Muma (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Part II. The tribe Kampimodromini Kolodochka. International Journal of Acarology, 29, 179-224. https://doi.org/10.1080/01647950308684331
  • 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
  • Demite, P. R., Moraes, G. J. de, McMurtry, J. A., Denmark, H. A. & Castilho, R. C. (2025) Phytoseiidae Database. Available from: http://www.lea.esalq.usp.br/phytoseiidae/ (accessed 28 July 2025)