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Kuzinellus Wainstein

Description

Kuzinellus Wainstein

Kuzinellus Wainstein, 1976: 699; Chant & McMurtry, 1994: 244; 2007: 143; Moraes et al., 2004: 271. Kuzinellus (Hemiseiulus) Wainstein, 1976: 699.

Kuzinellus (Kuzinellus) Wainstein, 1976: 699.

Paraseiulus (Hemiseiulus) Wainstein, Karg, 1983: 322 (synonymy according to Chant & McMurtry, 1994). Typhlodromus, ecclesiasticus species group, Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1986: 448.

Key characters of the species of this genus are: seta z6 inserted about midway between j6 and s6, posteromesad to or at level of s6; seta Z1 absent whereas JV2 and JV3 present or absent (dorsal opisthosomal setal pattern O-8A; ventral setal pattern JV:ZV, JV-2:ZV or JV-3:ZV); seta R1 inserted on membrane in most species; sternal shield with posterior margin indistinct, otherwise seta ST3 usually but not always off sternal shield; 2 pairs of metapodal shields; ventrianal shield with 3 or 4 pairs of preanal setae and a pair of preanal pores; peritreme extending anteriorly to level of j1; fixed cheliceral digit with 2 – 6 teeth, movable cheliceral digit with 1 – 3 teeth; legs I – III without macrosetae; leg IV without macrosetae or with macrosetae usually only on basitarsus; calyx of spermatheca variable, but mostly funnel-shaped, saccular or tubular.

Twenty-two species of this genus are reported in this paper.

Notes

Published as part of De, Gilberto J., Zannou, Ignace D., Ueckermann, Eddie A., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2008, Phytoseiid mites of the tribe Paraseiulini Wainstein (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 1-34 in Zootaxa 1687 on pages 3-4, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180544

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Kuzinellus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Mesostigmata
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wainstein
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Wainstein, B. A. (1976) A new tribe of the family Phytoseiidae (Parasitiformes) [in Russian]. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 55, 696 - 700.
  • Chant, D. A. & McMurtry, J. A. (1994) A review of the subfamilies Phytoseiinae and Typhlodrominae (Acari: Phytoseiidae). International Journal of Acarology, 20 (4), 223 - 310.
  • 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.
  • Karg, W. (1983) Systematische untersuchung der Gattungen und Untergattungen der Raubmilbenfamilie Phytoseiidae Berlese, 1916, mit der beschreibung von 8 neuen Arten. Mitteilungen Zoologisches Museum in Berlin, 59 (2) 293 - 328.
  • Chant, D. A. & Yoshida-Shaul, E. (1986) A world review of the ecclesiasticus species group in the genus Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acarina: Phytoseiidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 64 (2), 447 - 466.