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Transeius aciculus

Description

Transeius aciculus (de Leon)

Typhlodromips aciculus de Leon, 1967: 28.

Amblyseius aciculus, Moraes et al., 1991: 122; Moraes et al., 2000: 253. Transeius aciculus, Chant & McMurtry, 2004a: 185.

Notes

This species has a Neotropical distribution: Brazil, Colombia, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Marie­Galante, Panama, Saint­Martin, Trinidad. The measurements of females and males collected in this study agree with those of Moraes et al. (1997) for specimens collected in Guadeloupe.

Notes

Published as part of Kreiter, Serge, Tixier, Marie-Stéphane & Etienne, Jean, 2006, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from the French Antilles, with description of Neoseiulus cecileae sp. nov., pp. 1-27 in Zootaxa 1294 on page 20, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.173514

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Mesostigmata
Family
Phytoseiidae
Genus
Transeius
Species
aciculus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • de Leon, D. (1967) Some mites of the Caribbean Area. Part I. Acarina on plants in Trinidad, West Indies. Allen Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 66 p.
  • Moraes, G. J. de, Mesa, N. C. & Braun, A. (1991) Some phytoseiid mites of Latin America (Acari: Phytoseiidae). International Journal of Acarology, 17, 117 - 139.
  • Moraes, G. J., Kreiter, S., Lofego, A. C. (2000) Plant mites (Acari) of the French Antilles. 3. Phytoseiidae (Gamasida). Acarologia, 40, 237 - 264.
  • Chant, D. A. & McMurtry, J. A. (2004 a) A review of the subfamily Amblyseiinae Muma (Acari: Phytoseiidae) Part III. The tribe Amblyseiini Wainstein, subtribe Amblyseiina N. subtribe. International Journal of Acarology, 30, 171 - 228.