Neoseiulella schusteri (Youssef and El-Brollosy)

Kanouh, M., Kreiter, S., Douin, M. & Tixier, M. - S., 2012, Revision Of The Genus Neoseiulella Muma (Acari: Phytoseiidae). Re-Description Of Species, Synonymy Assessment, Biogeography, Plant Supports And Key To Adult Females, Acarologia 52 (3), pp. 259-348 : 266

(i). Neoseiulella schusteri (Youssef and El-Brollosy)

Typhlodromus schusteri Youssef and El-Brollosy in Zaher 1986: 129.

Neoseiulella schusteri (Youssef and El-Brollosy) Moraes et al. 2004: 295 ; Chant and McMurtry 2007: 147.

This species was not included in the genus Neoseiulella in the previous revisions of Chant and Yoshida-shaul (1989) and Denmark and Rather (1984, 1996). However, it was considered a member of the genus Neoseiulella in the last world catalogue of the family Phytoseiidae ( Moraes et al. 2004) , and then in the revision of the family (Chant and Mc- Murtry 2007). As it has been impossible to borrow and thus to observe the type specimens (deposited in Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Cairo University, Egypt), an attentive examination of the dorsal chaetotaxy of the female, based on the original description, was carried out. We observe that the dorsal seta z3 is absent. This latter character with the presence of nine pairs of lateral setae on the dorsal shield (j3, z2, z4, s4, s6, S2, S4, S5, Z5) keys to the species Cydnoseius negevi (Swirski and Amitai) , tribe Galendromimini (sub-family Typhlodrominae ). El-Brollosy (personal comm. 2008) confirmed that N. schusteri had been misidentified, and that it is a junior synonym of C. negevi .