Typhloseiulus calabriae (Ragusa & Swirski)

Kreiter, Serge, Amiri, Karima, Douin, Martial, Bohinc, Tanja, Trdan, Stanislav & Tixier, Marie-Stéphane, 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Slovenia (Acari: Mesostigmata): new records and first description of the male ofAmblyseius microorientalis, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 203-242 : 228

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24349/acarologia/20204364
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:FA20102C-186C-4F32-90CA-EFDD21E8DAE2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4526168
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scientific name	Typhloseiulus calabriae (Ragusa & Swirski)
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Typhloseiulus calabriae (Ragusa & Swirski) View in CoL

Seiulus calabriae Ragusa & Swirski 1976: 179-182 ; Kolodochka 1981: 21; Moraes et al. 1986: 230.

Typhlodromus calabriae, Chant & Yoshida-Shaul 1983: 1144-1145 .

Typhloseiulus calabriae, Moraes et al. 2004: 373-374 View in CoL .

This species is mentioned only from few European countries.

Its biology remains totally unknown.

This is the first mention of that species for the Slovenian fauna.

World distribution: Croatia, Greece, Italy, Ukraine.

Specimens examined: 2 ♀♀ in total. Ljubljana, near Hotel Azur (aasl 296 m, lat. 46°02’42”N, long. 14°28’25”E), 2 ♀♀ on Acer pseudoplatanus View in CoL L. ( Aceraceae ), 19/VI/2018.

Remarks The measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Chant and Yoshida-Shaul (1983) and by Doker (2018) in a recent re-description.