Neoseiulella eleglidus (Tseng), 2004

Kanouh, M., Kreiter, S., Douin, M. & Tixier, M. - S., 2012, Revision Of The Genus Neoseiulella Muma (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Re-Description Of Species, Synonymy Assessment, Biogeography, Plant Supports And Key To Adult Females, Acarologia 52 (3), pp. 259-348 : 266

(ii). Neoseiulella eleglidus (Tseng)

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) eleglidus Tseng 1983: 64-66 . Typhlodromus eleglidus (Tseng) Wu et al. 1991: 82 . Neoseiulella eleglidus (Tseng) Moraes et al. 2004: 293 ; Chant and McMurtry 2007: 147.

This species was not included in the genus Neoseiulella in the revisions of Chant and Yoshida-shaul (1989) and Denmark and Rather (1984, 1996). However, it was included in the genus Neoseiulella in the last world catalogue ( Moraes et al. 2004), and then in the revision of the family (Chant and Mc- Murtry 2007). It has been impossible to borrow and thus to observe the type specimens (deposited in Plant Quarantine Laboratory, Tainan Branch, Bureau of Commodity Inspection and Quarantine, Tainan, Taiwan). However, the original description of this species shows 18 pairs of setae on the dorsal shield (j1, j3, j4, j5, j6, J2, J5, z2, z3, z4, z5, Z4, Z5, s4, s6, S2, S4, S5) and 2 sub-lateral setae (r3 and R1). Because of the absence of seta Z1 and presence of seta S5, this dorsal setal pattern (12A: 8B) keys to the genus Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) De Leon (tribe Typhlodromini , sub-family Typhlodrominae ).