Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijskes, 1939)

NascimentoK, Renata S., SouzaK, Kaélem S., MeloK, Elisangela A. S. F., TassiK, Aline D., CastroK, Elizeu B., K, Denise Navia, de MendonçaK, Renata S., OchoaK, Ronald & OliveiraK, Anibal R., 2023, Flat mites (Tenuipalpidae) from Bahia state, Northeastern Brazil - a checklist including new records and an illustrated key to species, Acarologia 63 (3), pp. 619-636 : 624

Brevipalpus phoenicis (Geijskes, 1939)

Records in Bahia. Flechtmann and Abreu 1973: 249 ; Flechtmann, 1976: 58 ; Moraes and Flechtmann 1981: 183 ; Flechtmann and Arleu 1984: 124 ; Noronha et al. 1997: 373 ; Santos

Filho et al. 1999: 5; Ribeiro et al. 2001: 2022; Fiaboe et al. 2007: 9 ; Oliveira et al. 2007: 257 ; Almeida et al. 2010: 1 ; Laranjeira et al. 2011: 17; Noronha and Cavalcante 2011: 453 ; Silva et al. 2012a: 1 ; Silva et al. 2012b: 17 ; Navia et al. 2013: 6 ; Almeida and Figueira 2014: 1 ; Laranjeira et al. 2015: 1 ; present study.

Specimens examined. F. Terra Nova, ex. H. rostrata, Sep 2007 (1 ♀); UESC, ex. Z. spectabile, Sep 2007 (1 ♀); F. Barra, ex. E. elatior , Nov 2007 (2 ♀♀); UESC, ex. E. elatior , May 2007 (1 ♀); F. Frupical, ex. Musa sp. , Apr 2007 (2 ♀♀); UESC, ex. Heliconia sp. var.Irish Red, Sep 2007 (1 ♀); UESC, ex. T. grandiflorum, Jul 2021 (1 ♀).

Remarks. All the published records under the taxon name B. phoenicis in Bahia were provided before the publication of Beard et al. (2015), and should be considered questionable due to synonymies and historic misidentifications. In this way these records should be considered as B. phoenicis sensu lato. All the females collected in the present study have similar morphology to the redescription of B. phoenicis sensu stricto provided by Beard et al. (2015).