Neoseiulus madeirensis Papadoulis & Kapaxidi

Kreiter, Serge, Douin, Martial & Tixier, Marie Stephane, 2021, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Madeira Island, Acarologia 61 (2), pp. 217-240 : 219

Neoseiulus madeirensis Papadoulis & Kapaxidi

Neoseiulus madeirensis Papadoulis & Kapaxidi 2011: 119 .

Neoseiulus madeirensis belongs to the cucumeris species group of Neoseiulus , as the dorsocentral setae are not short relatively to dorsolateral setae. It belongs to the cucumeris species subgroup as the spermatheca does not have a stalk between calyx and atrium, the atrium is undifferentiated or nodular and joined directly to calyx ( Chant and McMurtry 2003a).

This species was already recorded in Madeira Island as it was collected and described by Papadoulis and Kapaxidi (2011) from specimens collected on Lantana sp. in the Botanical Garden of Funchal in Madeira Island. Its biology is totally unknown.

World distribution: Madeira Island.

Specimens examined: a single specimen (1 ♀) collected during this study. Ribeira Brava, Dazkarizeh Guesthouse (475 m aasl, 32°40 ′ 5 ″ N, 17°2 ′ 55 ″ W), 1 ♀ on Hibisus tiliaceus L. ( Malvaceae ), 21/V/2019.

Remarks: measurements of morphological characters and traits of the N. madeirensis female specimen from Madeira Island ( Table 1) are very close to measurements of specimens considered in the original description by Papadoulis and Kapaxidi (2011). We have added some measurements of some important characters not documented before as it is only the second record of that species from Madeira Island. Our specimen was collected at Ribeira Brava, at only 20 km from the botanical garden of Funchal from where the species has been described.