Proprioseiopsis okanagensis ( Chant, 1957 )

Farazmand, Azadeh, Jalaeian, Mahdi, Kamali, Hashem, Saboori, Alireza, Tixier, MarieStéphane & Kreiter, Serge, 2023, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in four provinces of Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (1), pp. 21-58 : 35-36

Proprioseiopsis okanagensis ( Chant, 1957)

Typhlodromus okanagensis Chant, 1957: 293 . Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) okanagensis, Chant 1959: 93 .

Amblyseiulus okanagensis, Muma 1961: 478 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) okanagensis, Van der Merwe 1968: 113 .

Proprioseiopsis (Amblyseiulus) okanagensis, Karg 1983: 303 .

Amblyseius (Proprioseiopsis) okanagensis, Wu et al. 2009: 181 .

Proprioseiopsis okanagensis, Chant & McMurtry 2005a: 15 ; 2007: 89.

Proprioseiopsis levis Wainstein, 1960: 686 (synonymy according to Karg 1971 b).

Specimens examined – three ♀♀. Sistan and Baluchestan Province – one ♀, Konarak city, Kahir (29 m aasl, 60° 07′ 53′′ E, 25° 35′ 24′′ N), on Citrus limon (L.) Burman ( Rutaceae ), 17.IV.2018; one ♀, Kalateh Razagh Zadeh (1497 m aasl, 60° 48′ 50′′ E, 29° 23′ 28′′ N), on Pinus sp. (Pinaceae) , 19.X.2018; one ♀, Jazinak city (486 m aasl, 61° 34′ 15′′ E, 39° 52′ 35′′ N), on unknown weeds, 30.VII.2019.

World distribution – Austria, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Georgia, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Iran, Kazachstan, Latvia, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Türkiye, Ukraine, USA. Precise distribution in Iran is documented in Kazemi et al. (2022).

Remarks – This species have been recorded in Iran but not in Sistan and Baluchestan. Morphological characters agree well with those provided in the original description. All measurements fit well previous measurements published by Chant and Hansell (1971) for specimens from Canada and by Congdon (2002) for specimens from USA except longer z2, S2, S4, S5, JV5 and StIV and shorter Z5, SgeIV and StiIV in the specimens herein observed ( Table 6). Measurements of original description are not complete but drawings are good allowing to confirm the identity of that species.