Proprioseiopsis messor ( Wainstein, 1960 )

Farazmand, Azadeh, Jalaeian, Mahdi, Kamali, Hashem, Saboori, Alireza, Tixier, MarieStéphane & Kreiter, Serge, 2023, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in four provinces of Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (1), pp. 21-58 : 35

Proprioseiopsis messor ( Wainstein, 1960)

Typhlodromus messor Wainstein, 1960: 688 .

Amblyseius messor, Athias-Henriot 1961: 425 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) messor, Ehara 1966: 22 ; Ueckermann & Loots 1988: 66.

Amblyseius (Amblyseiulus) messor, Arutunjan 1970: 16 .

Proprioseiopsis (Amblyseiulus) messor, Karg 1989: 212 .

Proprioseiopsis messor, Moraes et al. 1986: 117, 2004: 180 ; Chant & McMurtry 2005a: 15, 2007: 89.

Proprioseiopsis apheles ( van der Merwe, 1968) : 121 (synonymy according to Ueckermann & Loots 1988).

Proprioseiopsis lindquisti ( Schuster & Pritchard, 1963) : 246 (synonymy according to Abbasova 1972).

Specimens examined – seven ♀♀ and two ♂♂. Guilan Province – one ♂, Langrud (- 19m aasl, 50° 9′ 6.36′′ E, 37° 11′ 44.36′′ N), in soil of a fruit garden (including apple, pear and cherry), 4.VIII.2020. Sistan and Baluchestan Province – one ♀, Chabahar city, Pasabandar (59 m aasl, 61° 25′ 42′′ E, 25° 05′ 45′′ N), on Capparis decidua (Forsskål) Edgeworth (Capparaceae) , 20/V/2018; one ♀ + one ♂, Zabol city, Chahanimeh region (505 m aasl, 60° 42′ 50′′ E, 30° 51′ 00′′ N), on unknown weeds, 11.IV.2019; one ♀, Zabol city, University Campus (484 m aasl, 61° 32′ 01′′ E, 31° 02′ 36′′ N), on unknown weeds, 5.V.2019; one ♀, Jazinak city (486 m aasl, 61° 34′ 15′′ E, 30° 52′ 35′′ N), on unknown weeds, 2/VI/2019; three ♀♀, Golkhani Town (478 m aasl, 61° 12′ 18′′ E, 31° 02′ 21′′ N), on Cressa cretica L. ( Convolvulaceae ), 20/VII/2020.

World distribution – Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Canary Islands, Egypt, France, Gaza strip, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Morocco, New Zealand, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Syria, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, USA. Precise distribution in Iran is documented in Kazemi et al. (2022).

Remarks – Proprioseiopsis messor was already recorded from Iran in many Provinces but this is the first record for Sistan and Baluchestan Province. Morphological and morphometric characters fit very well the previous description and measurements published by Zaher (1986) for specimens from Egypt, Ferragut et al. (2010) for specimens from Spain and Abo-Shnaf, Moraes (2014) for specimens from Egypt and above all Ostovan et al. (2012) in a redescription based on Iranian specimens.