Neoseiulus teke (Pritchard & Baker)

Kreiter, Serge, Douin, Martial & Tixier, Marie Stephane, 2021, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Madeira Island, Acarologia 61 (2), pp. 217-240 : 220-221

Neoseiulus teke (Pritchard & Baker)

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) teke Pritchard & Baker 1962: 239 .

Amblyseius teke, Meyer & Rodrigues 1966: 30 , Moraes et al. 1989a: 83, 1989b: 97.

Neoseiulus teke, Moraes et al. 1986: 98, 2004b: 147 , Chant & McMurtry 2003a: 37, 2007: 31. Amblyseius (Amblyseius) bibens Blommers 1973: 111 (synonymy according to Ueckermann & Loots 1988).

Neoseiulus teke belongs to the barkeri species group and the womersleyi species subgroup ( Chant and McMurtry 2003a). This species is reported from sub­Saharan Africa often associated with Mononychellus tanajoa (Bondar) , the cassava green mite (CGM) ( Mutisya et al. 2017).

It has been studied for its potential as BCA against the CGM. Nwilene and Nachman (1996) studied its reproduction characteristics on M. tanajoa . It was more efficient than I. degenerans ,

but seems not efficient enough in field conditions ( Nwilene and Nachman 1996). This is the first report of this species from Madeira Island. The Madeira population might have originated

Characters Madeira Island (1) Madeira Island Characters Madeira Island (1) Madeira Island

(this study) 2011 (10) (this study) 2011 (10)

Dsl 340 327 (321 – 340) st1-st1 55 –

Dsw 175 168 (161 – 174) st2-st2 62 62 (59 – 63)

j1 23 24 (23 – 27) st3-st3 79 –

j3 51 51 (49 – 52) st1-st3 62 65 (63 – 67)

j4 48 48 (45 – 50) st4-st4 90 –

j5 50 50 (49 – 52) Gensl 130 –

j6 55 57 (54 – 59) Gensw st5 68 –

J2 58 55 (50 – 58) Gensw post. corn. 78 –

J5 12 11 (9 – 13) st5-st5 60 60 (58 – 63)

z2 50 50 (47 – 54) Lisl 33 –

z4 58 57 (54 – 59) Lsiw 3 –

z5 43 45 (41 – 49) Vsl 125 120 (115 – 122)

Z1 53 54 (50 – 58) vsw ZV2 90 86 (81 – 92)

Z4 63 67 (65 – 70) Vsw anus 60 –

Z5 73 70 (65 – 76) gv3 – gv3 15 –

s4 65 62 (59 – 68) JV5 50 48 (47 – 50)

S2 59 57 (50 – 61) StIV 54 47 (45 – 50)

S4 34 32 (29 – 36) scl 18 18

S5 28 27 (25 – 29) scw 7 –

r3 35 32 (29 – 36) Fdl 24 24 (23 – 25)

R1 33 30 (27 – 32) No teeth Fdl 4 4

Mdl 26 26 (25 – 27)

No teeth Mdl Not visible 3

Sources of measurements – Madeira Island 2011: Papadoulis & Kapaxidi (2011); –: not provided.

from Ethiopian Region through commercial exchanges. It was collected in the Botanical garden at Funchal, where most of the plants have African origin.

World distribution: Burundi, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mayotte Island, Mohéli Island, Mozambique, La Réunion Island, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Specimens examined: a single specimen (1 ♀) collected during this study. Funchal, Botanical garden (350 m aasl, 32°39 ′ 46 ″ N, 16°53 ′ 38 ″ W), 1 ♀ on Montanoa bipinnatifida (Kunth) Koch (Asteraceae) , 14/V/2019.

Remarks: measurements of morphological characters and traits of the N. teke female specimen from Madeira Island are very close to measurements of specimens from La Réunion ( Quilici et al. 2000 ; Kreiter et al. 2020d), Mayotte (Kreiter et al. 2020a), Mohéli ( Kreiter et al. 2021b) and Grande Comore (Kreiter et al. submitted) Islands.