Euseius hima (Pritchard & Baker)

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Mohéli Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 94-114 : 101

Euseius hima (Pritchard & Baker)

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) hima Pritchard & Baker 1962: 257 ; Blommers 1976: 89.

Euseius hima, Moraes et al. 1986: 46, 2004b: 71 ; Quilici et al. 2000: 99 ; Chant & McMurtry 2005a: 215, 2007: 121.

The 200 species of the genus Euseius are considered as Type IV species, polliniphagous generalists ( McMurtry and Croft 1997 ; McMurtry et al. 2013). The biology of this species, however, remains totally unknown.

World distribution: Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, La Réunion Island, Madagascar Island.

Specimens examined: six specimens (6 ♀♀) collected during this study. Fomboni, inside the town (15 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 29 ″ S, 43°44 ′ 35 ″ E), 6 ♀♀ on Pentas lanceolata (Forskål) Deflers (Rubiaceae) , 2/XII/2018.

Remarks: this species was recorded from several countries of Sub­Saharan Africa, but also from India ( Demite et al. 2020), La Réunion ( Quilici et al. 2000 ; Kreiter et al. 2020d), Madagascar ( Blommers 1976), Mauritius ( Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020b) and Anjouan ( Kreiter et al. 2021). Morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well measurements published in Kreiter et al. (2020d) and with measurements of specimens from Mauritius Island ( Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020b).