Phytoseius coheni Swirski & Shechter, 1961

Kreiter, Serge & Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A., 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Rodrigues Island (Acari: Mesostigmata), Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 449-468 : 460

Phytoseius coheni Swirski & Shechter

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) macropilis coheni Swirski & Shechter 1961: 104 .

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) macropilis coheni, Ehara 1966: 26 .

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) coheni, Swirski & Golan 1967: 226 ; Wu 1997: 153.

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) coheni, Moraes et al. 1986: 219 .

Phytoseius coheni Moraes et al., 2004: 235 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

Phytoseius hawaiiensis Prasad 1968: 1460 (synonymy according to Denmark & Evans 2011).

Phytoseius huangi Ehara 1970: 62 (synonymy according to Ehara 2002).

Phytoseius jianfengensis Chen, Chu & Zhou 1980: 15 (synonymy according to Wu 1997).

This species belongs to the horridus species group as setae J2 and R1 are absent ( Chant and McMurtry 1994).

This species was described from Hong-Kong by Swirski and Shechter (1961) collected on a wide range of plants and very common on citrus. Although species of the genus Phytoseius are considered to belong to the type III (polyphagous generalist predators) of McMurtry and Croft (1997) and McMurtry et al. (2013), its specific biology is totally unknown.

World distribution: Australia, China, Hawaii, Hon-Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Tahiti, Taiwan, Thailand, USA.

Specimens examined: a single ♀ during this study. Port-Mathurin, City Center (11 m aasl, lat. 19°40 ′ 53 ″ S, long. 63°25 ′ 17 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Polyscias scutellaria (Burman) Fosberg (Araliaceae) , 11/XI/2020.

Remarks: this species was firstly reported from Mauritius by Schicha (1984) under the junior synonym name P. hawaiensis . Ferragut and Baumann (2019) recovered the species. Kreiter et al. (2020b) have recently reported this species from Vietnam. Morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements in Kreiter et al. (2020b).