A New Species of Galendromus (Acari: Phytoseiidae): a Case of Intraspecific Variation and Redefinition of carinulatus Species Group

A new species of Neoseiulus Hughes (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Sao Paulo State, Brazil

“…This biome is considered as a "biodiversity hotspot", i.e., a world priority conservation area due a great concentration of endemic species subjected to strong anthropic pressure (Myers et al, 2000), and have been highlighted in discovery of new species and genera of phytoseiids; only in the last fifteen years were 27 new species and four new genera described from this biome from São Paulo State (Gondim Jr. and Moraes, 2001;Zacarias and Moraes, 2001;Zacarias et al, 2002;Moraes et al, 2003;Lofego and Feres, 2006;Demite et al, 2007Demite et al, , 2008aDemite et al, , b, 2011Tixier and Kreiter, 2009;Lofego et al, 2011a, b;Moraes et al, 2013;Barbosa et al, 2014). In this paper a new species of phytoseiid mite is described, discovered during collections conducted in Atlantic Forest areas of State of São Paulo, Brazil.…”