Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) ernesti 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 : 232-233

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) ernesti Ragusa & Swirski

Typhlodromus ernesti Ragusa & Swirski 1978: 211 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 243.

Typhlodromus ernesti postici, Karg 1989: 275 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) ernesti, Moraes et al. 2004: 364 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 157.

The biology of this type III species ( McMurtry et al. 2013) is almost totally unknown.

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

World distribution: Austria, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, Ukraine.

Specimens examined: 11 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂ and 2 immatures in total. Rakitnica, Dolenja vas (aasl 490 m, lat. 45°41’12”N, long. 14°45’20”E), 2 ♀♀ on Picea abies (L.) H. Karsten ( Pinaceae ), 18/VI/2019; Pragersko, Kvedrova ulica (aasl 250 m, lat. 46°23’48”N, long. 13°40’11”E), 1 ♀ on P. abies , 20/VI/2019; Šobec (aasl 418 m, 46°21’22”N, 14°9’2”E), 1 ♀ on P. abies and 1 ♀ on Aesculus hippocastanum L. ( Sapindaceae ), 21/VI/2019; Bled, Lake (aasl 478 m, lat. 46°22’4”N, long. 14°05’06”E), 5 ♀♀, 3 ♂♂ and 2 immatures on P. abies , 21/VI/2019; Labore (aasl 362 m, lat. 46°10’17”N, long. 14°23’12”E), 1 ♀ on P. abies , 21/VI/2019.

Remarks: The measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Tixier et al. (2019).