Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) rhenanoides Athias-Henriot, 1960

ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, Acarologia 63 (3), pp. 691-724 : 708

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) rhenanoides Athias-Henriot

Typhlodromus rhenanoides Athias-Henriot 1960b: 85 .

Neoseiulus rhenanoides, Schuster & Pritchard 1963: 205 .

Anthoseius rhenanoides, Charlet & McMurtry 1977: 186 .

Amblydromella rhenanoides, Moraes et al. 1986: 174 .

Amblydromella (Aphanoseia) rhenanoides , Denmark & Welbourn 2002: 308.

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) rhenanoides, Moraes et al. 2004a: 347 , Chant & McMurtry 2007: 155.

World distribution — Algeria, Canary Islands, France, Greece, Hawaii, Italy, Les Saintes, Madeira Island ( Portugal), Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia, and USA.

Previous records from Morocco — This species was reported from Morocco by Kreiter et al. (2004), McMurtry and Bounfour (1989) on Cupressus spp. L. ( Cupressaceae ) and Tixier et al. (2016) on a great variety of plants and locations, such as on Lupinus humulus L. ( Fabaceae ), Solananum sodomeum L. ( Solanaceae ), Nicotiana glauca Grah. ( Solanaceae ), Urtica dioica L. ( Urticaceae ), and Solanum nigrum L. ( Solanaceae ).

Specimens examined — 6 ♀♀ + 2 ♂ + 4 im. on Tamarix aphylla L. ( Tamaricaceae ) in April 2019 ; 1 ♀ + 1 ♂ + 1 im. on Ficus carica L. ( Moraceae ) in the argan fores in the Road to Aksri and Imouzzar Ida ou Tenane villages in tha same date.

Remarks — The measurements of adult females agree with redescription provided by Tixier et al. (2016) for specimens from Morocco. This species has been reported on many uncultivated plants and sometimes on some orchards such as peach, plum, olive, citrus, and vineyards ( Ragusa 2006). Nothing is known of its ability to control pests (Tixier el al. 2016).