Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) rhenanus (Oudemans)

Barbar, Ziad, Parker, Bruce & Skinner, Margaret, 2022, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Syria: new records and first description of the male of Eharius stathakisi Döker, Acarologia 62 (1), pp. 12-21 : 19

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) rhenanus (Oudemans)

Specimens collected — Attabiyyat: 12 ♀♀ and two ♂♂ on Marrubium vulgare L. ( Lamiaceae ),

23 April 2020 ; Slanfeh: one ♀ on Centaurea calcitrapa L. ( Asteraceae ), 20 April 2021.

Remarks — This species has already been observed on several host plants in Latakia governorate ( Barbar 2013). Ventrianal shield of one collected female is abnormal by having only three pairs of ventrianal setae JV1, JV2 and JV3, and seta ZV3 is absent in the left side, ( Figure 4 ).

Figures

Figure 4 Ventrianal shield and its surrounding area of the female of Typhlodromus pyriScheuten. Scale bar = 50 μm.