Phytoseius horridus Ribaga

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 : 227

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.4526158
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0384D55D-E362-475B-FE28-62D3F8D5FC7F
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Phytoseius horridus Ribaga
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Phytoseius horridus Ribaga View in CoL

Phytoseius horridus Ribaga 1904: 178 View in CoL ; Chant 1959: 108; Moraes et al. 2004: 240; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) horridus, Chant & Athias-Henriot 1960: 221 View in CoL .

Typhlodromus horridus, Hirschmann 1962: 62 .

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) horridus, Moraes et al. 1986: 222 View in CoL .

Having seta R1 and J2 absent, this species belongs to the horridus View in CoL species group of the genus Phytoseius ( Chant and McMurtry 2007) View in CoL .

The biology of this species seems totally unknown.

This species was already recorded and mentioned in a Slovenian paper ( Bohinc et al. 2018), and in international conference paper ( Trdan and Bohinc, 2016).

World distribution: Algeria, France, Greece, Italy, Montenegro, Portugal, Spain.

Specimens examined: 23 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ in total. Parecag (aasl 72 m, lat. 45°28’44”N, long. 13°37’49”E), 15 ♀♀ and 1 ♂ on Prunus domestica L. ( Rosaceae ), 21/VI/2018; Škofljica, Gumnišče 15 (aasl 305 m, lat. 45°58’15”N, long. 14°34’17”E), 4 ♀♀ on Acer campestre L. ( Sapindaceae ) and 1 ♀ on Carpinus betulus L. ( Betulaceae ), 18/VI/2019; Dragonja (aasl 3 m, lat. 45°27’32”N, long. 13°39’4”E), 2 ♀♀ on Prunus pumila L. ( Rosaceae ) and 1 ♀ on Ficus carica L. ( Moraceae ), 19/VI/2019.

Remarks: The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Denmark (1966) and by Ferragut et al. (2010) for specimens from Spain.