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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) totifolianensis El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad

Description

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) totifolianensis El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad

Typhlodromus totifolianensis El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad, 1991: 218.

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) totifolianensis, Moraes et al., 2004: 354; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 157.

Remarks. Female with idiosomal setal pattern 12A:8A/JV:ZV; dorsal shield reticulate between setae j4 and Z4; dorsal setae smooth and sharp-tipped, except Z4, lanceolate and serrate, and Z5, serrate and knobbed; setae r3 and R1 inserted on integument; seta ST3 off sternal shield; posterior margin of sternal shield with median lobe; ventrianal shield pentagonal, with few lateral striae, with 4 pairs of pre-anal setae (seta JV3 present); JV5 smooth and knobbed; calyx of spermatheca tubular; peritreme extending to level of j1; with macrosetae only on genu, tibia and tarsus of leg IV. Described from specimens collected at Arusha, Tanzania, on unspecified substrate. No additional specimens collected in the present study.

World distribution. Tanzania.

Notes

Published as part of Ueckermann, Edward A., Zannou, Ignace D., De Moraes, Gilberto J., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2008, Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Typhlodromini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 1901 (1) on page 99, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1901.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5134045

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Typhlodromus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
El-Banhawy & Abou-Awad
Species
totifolianensis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • El-Banhawy, E. M. & Abou-Awad, B. A. (1991) Descriptions of some Typhlodromus species from Tanzania (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae). Acarologia, 32 (3), 217 - 221.
  • 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 - 494.
  • Chant, D. A. & McMurtry, J. A. (2007). Illustrated keys and diagnosis for the genera and subgenera of the Phytoseiidae of the world (Acari: Mesostigmata). Indira Publishing House, West Bloomfield, USA, pp. 1 - 220.