Neoseiulus Hughes, 1948

Bhowmik, Sagarika & Karmakar, Krishna, 2021, Five new species and re-description of eight species belonging to the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from West Bengal, India, Zootaxa 4975 (3), pp. 401-450 : 416

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4975.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4807808
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scientific name	Neoseiulus Hughes, 1948
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Neoseiulus Hughes, 1948: 141 View in CoL .

Type species Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948: 141 .

Chant & McMurtry (2003) proposed ten species groups viz, rancidus, paloratus, leucophaeus, barkeri , letrauformis, peruanus, desertus, paspalivorus, canadensis and cucumeris groups in the genus Neoseiulus , depending on the presence or absence of seta J1, ZV3, structures of posterior margin of sternal shield, insertion of ST3, shape of ventrianal shield, ratio of length of dorsocental seta and spermathecal morphology. Neoseiulus longispinosus (Evans) and Neoseiulus imbricatus (Corpuz & Rimando) belong to the cucumeris species group and Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes described in the present study belongs to the barkeri species group.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Mesostigmata
Family	Phytoseiidae