Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) corticis Herbert

Ferragut, Francisco & Ueckermann, Edward A., 2012, A new species and new records of the subgenus Typhlodromus Scheuten from Spain, with a key to the world species (Acari: Phytoseiidae), Journal of Natural History 46 (27 - 28), pp. 1731-1745 : 1733-1734

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) corticis Herbert

Typhlodromus corticis Herbert, 1958: 429 ; Rasmy and MacAphee 1970: 173; Chant et al. 1974: 1274; Moraes et al. 1986: 243; Chant and Yoshida-Shaul 1987: 1776; Corino 1989: 399; Chiappini 1991: 87; Denmark 1992: 17; Wu et al. 1992: 50; Meshkov 1999: 430; Karg and Huhta 2009: 518; Denmark and Evans 2011: 389.

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) corticis Herbert, Moraes et al. 2004: 363 ; Papadoulis et al. 2009: 153.

Typhlodromus rodovae Wainstein and Arutunjan, 1968: 1241 (synonymy according to Chant and Yoshida-Shaul 1987: 1776)

Specimens examined

Two females, Uña, Cuenca Province, on Pinus nigra subsp. salzmannii (Dunal) Franco (Pinaceae) , 22 October 1994, F. Ferragut.

Previous records

Armenia, Azerbaijan, Canada, China, Finland, Greece, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Ukraine.

Remarks

The morphological characters of the specimens collected resemble those given by Chant and Yoshida-Shaul (1987) except for the shorter s6. Average measurements of the two females: dorsal shield, 362 long and 168 wide; genital shield, 74 wide; ventrianal shield, 114 long, 96 wide. Setae j1: 22, j3: 28; j4: 16, j5: 16, j6: 18, J2: 21, J5: 8, z2: 18, z3: 25, z4: 22, z5: 16, Z4: 32, Z5: 51, s4: 24, s6: 24, S2: 29, S4: 32, r3: 25, R1 : 26, JV5: 44. SgeIV 25; StiIV: 26; St IV: 48. This species bears five pairs of dorsal solenostomes (gd2, gd4, gd6, gd8 and gd9). Chaetotactic formula of genus II: 22 / 0, 2 / 01 .