Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Phytoseiidae) associated with tropical ornamental plants, with a checklist and a key to the species of Bahia, Brazil
Author
Argolo, Poliane Sá
Author
Vital Santos, Renata M.
Author
Leão Bittencourt, Maria A.
Author
Da Silva Noronha, Aloyséia C.
Author
De Moraes, Gilberto J.
Author
Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan
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Zootaxa
2017
4258
4
345
364
journal article
33130
10.11646/zootaxa.4258.4.3
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1175-5326
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Phytoseiulus macropilis
(
Banks, 1904
)
Specimens
examined. Fazenda
Liberdade
,
H
.
rostrata
,
February 2007
(
1 female
)
;
Fazenda Monte Alegre
,
H
.
rostrata
,
January 2008
(
1 female
),
H
.
wagneriana
,
September 2006
(
1 female
),
January 2008
(
1 female
)
.
Four females measured. Dorsal shield 318 (290–332) long, 215 (210–220) wide,
j1
25 (23–27),
j3
35 (34–37),
j4
55 (49–61),
j5
69 (65–76),
j6
143 (137–153),
J5
6 (5–6),
z2
13 (12–15),
z4
54 (49–61),
z5
11 (9–12),
Z1
104 (92– 116),
Z4
125 (116–137),
Z5
112 (107–119),
s4
162 (156–168),
S5
27
(24–31),
r3
23 (21–24),
R1
23 (21–26); distances between
St1–St3
71 (67–76),
St2–St2
76 (68–82),
St5–St5
85 (77–90); ventrianal shield 94 (92–95) long, 65 (61–67) wide at level of
ZV2
and 74 (72–76) wide at level of anus; movable cheliceral digit 24 long; fixed cheliceral digit 21 long, calyx of spermatheca 33 (31–34) long;
Sge
I
51 (49–52),
Sge
II
31 (30–31),
Sge
III
41 (34– 55),
Sti
III
29 (27–31),
Sge
IV
72 (67–76),
Sti
IV
35 (34–37),
St
IV
99 (88–107).
Remarks. No measurements were given in the original description of this species. Measurements of the specimens collected agree with the redescription given by
Schuster & Pritchard (1963)
, except for the longer
j6
(110) and the shorter
S5
(40). Specimens collected in this study have wider dorsal shield than reported for specimens from
São Paulo
by Moraes
et al
. (2013) [179 (175–187)].