Galendromus (Galendromus) helveolus (Chant)

Kreiter, Serge, Tixier, Marie-Stéphane & Etienne, Jean, 2006, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from the French Antilles, with description of Neoseiulus cecileae sp. nov., Zootaxa 1294, pp. 1-27 : 21

Galendromus (Galendromus) helveolus (Chant)

Typhlodromus helveolus Chant, 1959: 58 (new name for T. floridanus Muma, 1955: 269 , preoccupied by T. floridanus Muma, 1955: 264 ); McMurtry, 1983: 262; Chant & Yoshida­Shaul, 1984: 1864; Moraes et al., 1991: 135.

Typhlodromus floridanus Muma, 1955: 269 .

Galendromus floridanus, Muma, 1961: 298 .

Galendromus (Galendromus) floridanus, Muma, 1963: 18 ; Muma et al., 1970: 136.

Galendromus helveolus , Denmark & Muma, 1967: 171.

Galendromus (Galendromus) helveolus , Denmark, 1982: 138; Moraes et al., 2000: 255 –256; Moraes et al., 2004.

Galendromus gratus, Chant, 1959: 58 (synonymy according to Chant & Yoshida­Shaul, 1984: 1864).

Notes

This species was known from Martinique but not from Guadeloupe. It has mainly a Neotropical distribution: Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, USA (Florida, Texas), Venezuela. The measurements of females and males collected in this study agree with those given by Moraes et al. (2000) for specimens collected in Guadeloupe.