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

Galendromimus Muma

Galendromimus Muma, 1961: 297 ; Muma et al., 1970: 58; Chant & McMurtry, 1994: 241; 2007: 137. Chanteius (Deleoneius) Wainstein, 1962: 19 (synonymy according to Chant & McMurtry, 1994). Nothoseius De Leon, 1965: 127 (synonymy according to Chant & McMurtry, 1994). Typhlodromus (Galendromimus) .— van der Merwe, 1968: 63.

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

Type species: Typhlodromus alveolaris De Leon, 1967

Chant & McMurtry (1994) included four species in this genus, and characterised it by the following attributes: setae s6 and Z1 present; setae z3, S2, S4 and R1 absent; some dorsal shield setae, especially Z4 and Z5, elongate, thick and strongly serrate. Three other species are now placed in Galendromimus , including the new species described here. As previously pointed out for Galendromimini, the inclusion of the new species described in this paper in Galendromimus requires that z 3 may occasionally be found in species of this group.

Additional characteristics of Galendromimus are: seta Z1 present; J2, S5, JV3, JV4 and ZV3 present or absent (leading to five possible setal patterns in this small genus—Table 1); sternal and genital shields smooth; sternal shield lightly sclerotised; ventrianal shield subrectangular, constricted at level of JV3, mostly smooth anterior to anal opening and reticulate elsewhere, with four pairs of pre-anal setae (JV1, JV2, JV3 and ZV2) and a pair of preanal pores of variable position and size; fixed cheliceral digit with few teeth, anteriad of pilus dentilis; leg macrosetae absent [differentiated seta on basitarsus IV of G. (N.) borinquensis , not much longer than neighboring setae]; spermatheca variable; and distal end of peritreme anteriad of j3 [except G. (G.) alveolaris ].

Chant & McMurtry (1994) recognised two subgenera in this genus, Galendromimus (Galendromimus) Muma and Galendromimus (Nothoseius) De Leon. The latter has only one species, G. (N.) borinquensis (De Leon) .