Galendromimus Muma

Demite, Peterson R., Gondim, Manoel G. C., Lofego, Antonio C. & Moraes, Gilberto J., 2014, A new species of Galendromimus Muma from Brazil (Acari: Phytoseiidae), with a review of the tribe Galendromimini Chant & McMurtry, Zootaxa 3835 (4), pp. 593-599 : 597

Subgenus Galendromimus Muma

Galendromimus Muma, 1961: 297 .

Chanteius (Deleoneius) Wainstein, 1962: 19 . (synonymy according to Chant & McMurtry, 1994) Typhlodromus (Galendromimus) . — van der Merwe, 1968: 63.

Kampimodromus (Galendromimus) . — Karg, 1983: 305.

Galendromimus (Galendromimus) .— Chant & McMurtry, 1994: 242; 2007: 139.

Type species: Typhlodromus alveolaris De Leon, 1967

Six species are placed today in Galendromimus (Galendromimus) , including the new species described here. These are distinguished from the only species of the other subgenus ( Nothoseius ) by the presence of JV3; the absence of JV4 and ZV3; the possible presence of J2 and the possible absence of S5; leg macrosetae absent; and calyx of spermatheca tubular (in some species inflated near atrium).

Remarks. Chant & McMurtry (1994) proposed two species groups in Galendromimus (Galendromimus) , based on the presence or absence of seta S5 — the alveolaris group, with S5, and the sanctus group, without S5. Four species are presently included in the alveolaris group: G. (G.) alveolaris , G. (G.) multipoculi Zacarias, Moraes & McMurtry , G. (G.) paulista Zacarias & Moraes and G. (G.) tunapunensis De Leon. The sanctus species group contains a single species, G. (G.) sanctus . Considering the importance attributed to the presence or absence of z 3 in phytoseiid classification, it was concluded that the new species described here should be classified by itself in a new group, the roraimensis species group, with its own setal pattern (Table 1).

When G. (G.) roraimensis sp. n. is included in the Galendromimini, the first half of couplet 2 of the key provided by Chant & McMurtry (1994: 237) to separate subtribes of Typhlodrominae should be modified as follows: “Seta z3 absent [except Galendromus (Galendromimus) roraimensis sp. n.]…….3.