Cydnoseius negevi (Swirski & Amitai)

ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, Acarologia 63 (3), pp. 691-724 : 706

Cydnoseius negevi (Swirski & Amitai)

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) negevi Swirski & Amitai, 1961: 194 .

Typhlodromus negevi, Amitai & Swirski 1966: 21 .

Typhlodromus (Neoseiulus) negevi, Ehara 1966 a: 19 .

Cydnodromella negevi, Chant & Yoshida-Shaul 1986: 2815 .

Amblydromella negevi, Moraes et al. 1986: 168 .

Cydnoseius negevi, Moraes et al. 2004a: 263 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 137 ; Abo-Shnaf & Moraes 2014: 39 .

Cydnoseius cordiae ( Muma 1967) : 276 (Synonymy according to Chant & Yoshida-Shaul 1986).

Cydnoseius medanicus ( El-Badry 1967b) : 108 (Synonymy according to Chant & Yoshida-Shaul 1986).

Cydnoseius zaheri ( El-Badry 1967a) : 182 (Synonymy according to Chant & Yoshida-Shaul 1986).

Cydnoseius africanus ( Yousef 1980) : 122 (Synonymy according to Chant & Yoshida-Shaul 1986).

Cydnoseius schusteri (Yousef & El-Borolossy in Zaher 1986): 129 (Synonymy according to Kanouh et al. 2012).

World distribution — Egypt, Israel, Oman, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates.

Specimens examined — 14 ♀♀ + 2 ♂♂ on Withania somnifera (L.) Dunal. ( Solanaceae ); 7 ♀♀ on the same plant in July 2017 respectively at Stah AlMadina and Errahim orchards. This is the first record of this species in Morocco.

Remarks — The measurements of adult females fit well with those provided by Alatawi et al. (2017) for specimens from Saudi Arabia.