New Phytoseiid mites of the FrenchWest Indies, with description of a new species, and new records (Acari: Mesostigmata)

Phytoseiid mites of Rodrigues Island (Acari: Mesostigmata)

“…Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements of the original description by van der Merwe (1968) and redescriptions by Ueckermann et al (2008) Kreiter et al 2002: 338. The biology of this species found in La Réunion Island by Kreiter et al (2002) on various host plants and then in French Caribbean Islands (Mailloux et al 2010;Kreiter et al 2013) remains unknown.…”

“…This species is distributed in many countries of the world, mainly in tropical areas (Moraes et al 2000;Mailloux et al 2010;Kreiter et al 2013Kreiter et al , 2018Demite et al 2020). It was found in low numbers in Guadeloupe, Martinique and La Réunion except for studies on companion plants in citrus orchards (Mailloux et al 2010;Kreiter et al 2013Kreiter et al , 2018cLe Bellec et al, unpub. data).…”

Pest control by mites (Acari): present and future

“…The systematics of their over 2,450 valid members (Demite et al 2014b) has been proposed (Chant and McMurtry 2007), and more species are being added by collecting in hitherto little canvassed countries (Guanilo et al 2008;Tixier et al 2012;Kreiter et al 2013). Demite et al (2014a, b) provided a database (available at the website www.lea.esalq.usp.br/phytoseiidae) for all species named at that date, and Hernandes et al (2012) provided a polytomus key to the world species of the large subgenus Typhlodromus (Anthoseius).…”

“…Maoz et al 2014), and is expected to become more prevalent. The problem of the decreasing number of traditional mite taxonomists could be offset by applying molecular methods (Gaskin et al 2011) and applying statisti-cal methods for morphological continuous characters (Tixier 2012(Tixier , 2013. Next generation sequencing (NGS) was discussed by Pompanon et al (2012), an approach that has the potential to reveal many consumed species simultaneously (DNA metabarcoding) and to identify the species found in pooled samples.…”

Phytoseiidae of La Réunion Island (Acari: Mesostigmata): three new species and two males described, new synonymies, and new records

“…Just after, Kreiter et al (2002) described seven new species from the Island, bringing to eight the number of new species described and to 31 the total number of species recorded from this island. Only one was collected in another place after its description, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) moraesi Kreiter and Ueckermann, very far from La Réunion, in Guadeloupe and then also in Martinique, both in the Caribbean (Kreiter et al 2013(Kreiter et al , 2018c. Moraes et al (2012) added another species for La Réunion, Neoseiulus recifensis Gondim Jr. and Moraes, originally described from Brasil.…”