Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Shanxi province of China

Abstract

The family Phytoseiidae is considered the most important beneficial mite family worldwide, but little is known about this family in Shanxi of China. To understand the phytoseiid fauna of this province, an extensive study was initiated in 2013. We present herein the description of a new species, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) shanxi sp. nov., and the redescription of three new provincial records, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) coryli Wu and Lan, 1991, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) porus Wu, 1988, Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) ternatus Ehara, 1972, found on various plants in Shanxi. A key to the known species of Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) reported form Shanxi is also presented.

Morphological ontogeny of Amblydromalus limonicus (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

“…Images and illustrations were edited with Photoshop CS6. The measuring method follows Ma et al (2016), except in the larval stage, the dorsal length was measured from j1 to the middle point of Z4 to Z4 (due to the fact that the larva does not have a single shield covering the whole idiosoma). Each measurement shows the average (minimum-maximum).…”

“…Phytoseiid mites received much attention due to their important roles in controlling phytophagous mites and other small arthropods such as thrips, whitefly and psyllids (Hoogerbrugge et al 2011;Knapp et al 2013;McMurtry et al 2013;Xu & Zhang 2015;Azevedo et al 2016;Silva et al 2016;Fathipour et al 2017;Liu & Zhang 2017;Patel & Zhang 2017a,b;Shakarami & Bazgir 2017;Song et al 2017;Ullah & Lim 2017;Zheng et al 2017). More than 2700 species have been recorded worldwide (Chant & McMurtry 2007;Ma et al 2016;Demite et al 2017).…”

Kuzinellus (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from China

“…Images and illustrations were edited with Photoshop CS4. Measuring method follows Ma et al (2016). All measurements are given in micrometers (μm).…”

<p class="Body">Two new species of Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Hainan Islands, China

“…Typhlodromus Scheuten is the most diverse, with about 460 nominal species in the world (Demite et al 2017). There are 85 species have been recorded in China, among which 83 species belong to the subgenus Anthoseius De Leon and two species belong to the subgenus Typhlodromus (Wu et al 2009;Ma et al 2016;Liao et al 2017).…”