Amblyseius neolargoensis van der Merwe

Kreiter, Serge & Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A., 2020, New records of phytoseiid mites from Mauritius Island (Acari: Mesostigmata, Acarologia 60 (3), pp. 520-545 : 532

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.24349/acarologia/20204382
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4527397
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scientific name	Amblyseius neolargoensis van der Merwe
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Amblyseius neolargoensis van der Merwe View in CoL

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) neolargoensis van der Merwe 1965: 59 View in CoL .

Amblyseius neolargoensis, Moraes et al. 1986: 23, 2004: 41 View in CoL ; Chant & McMurty 2004: 208, 2007: 80; Zannou et al. 2007: 20.

Amblyseius vazimba Blommers & Chazeau 1974: 312 View in CoL (synonymy according to Ueckermann & Loots 1988).

This species also belongs to the largoensis View in CoL species group and the largoensis View in CoL species subgroup (see above for A. largoensis View in CoL ). Its biology is totally unknown. It is the first mention of Amblyseius neolargoensis View in CoL from Mauritius.

World distribution: Cape Verde, Hawaii, Mozambique, La Réunion Island, South Africa, Zimbabwe.

Specimens examined: a single ♀ collected in Mauritius during the survey. Nouvelle-France (aasl 442 m, lat. 20°22 ′ 34 ″ S, long. 57°35 ′ 58 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Camelia sinensis (L.) Kuntze ( Theaceae ), 31/X/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements fit well measurement values given by van der Merwe (1965) for specimens from South Africa and Zannou et al. (2007) for specimens from South Africa and Mozambique.