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Transeius fragilis

  • 1. Montpellier SupAgro, UMR CBGP INRAE / IRD / CIRAD / SupAgro, Université de Montpellier, 755 Avenue du Campus Agropolis (Baillarguet), CS 30016, 34988 Montferrier-sur-Lez cedex, France.
  • 2. University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical faculty, Department of Agronomy, Chair for Phytomedicine, Agricultural Engineering, Crop Production, Pasture and Grassland Management, Jamnikarjeva ulica 101, SI- 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Description

Transeius fragilis (Kolodochka & Bondarenko)

Amblyseius fragilis Kolodochka & Bondarenko 1993: 34.

Typhlodromips fragilis, Moraes et al. 2004: 213.

Transeius fragilis, Chant & McMurtry 2004a: 187; 2007: 71.

This species belongs to the bellottii species group as seta z4 is not as long as 2/3 distance between its base and that of seta s4. The spermatheca has the calyx bell-shaped and that keys to bellottii species subgroup.

This species was described by Kolodochka and Bodarenko (1993) with specimens collected in the Black Sea National Biosphere Reserve, Solenoozernyy, Kherson Region, Ukraine, on Taraxacum sp. for the holotype and on Frankenia hirsuta L. and Cirsium sp. for the paratypes.

The biology of that species is totally unknown.

This is the first report of that species from Slovenia.

World distribution: Ukraine.

Specimens examined: 3 ♀♀ in total. Podgorje (aasl 228 m, lat. 46°42’18”N, long. 15°49’13”E), 1 ♀ on Phaseolus vulgaris L. (Fabaceae) and 2 ♀♀ on Fragaria sp. (Rosaceae), 12/VII/2018.

Remarks: The measurements of the three adult females (Table 2) collected agree quite well with those provided by Kolodochka and Bodarenko (1993) for specimens collected on diverse plant species from Ukraine, with only slightly longer setae z4 and S2, and slightly shorter macrosetae of the leg IV in the Slovenian specimens.

Notes

Published as part of Kreiter, Serge, Amiri, Karima, Douin, Martial, Bohinc, Tanja, Trdan, Stanislav & Tixier, Marie-Stéphane, 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Slovenia (Acari: Mesostigmata): new records and first description of the male ofAmblyseius microorientalis, pp. 203-242 in Acarologia 60 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204364, http://zenodo.org/record/4503322

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References

  • Kolodochka L. A., Bondarenko L. V. 1993. The plant dwelling phytoseiid mites of the Black Sea Reserve, with description of two new Amblyseius species. Vest. Zool., 4, 32 - 38 [in Russian].
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