Proprioseius meridionalis Chant, 1957

Akyazı, Rana, Welbourn, Cal & Liburd, Oscar E., 2021, Mite species (Acari) on blackberry cultivars in organic and conventional farms in Florida and Georgia, USA, Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 31-45 : 36

Proprioseius meridionalis Chant

Amblyseius (Proprioseius) meridionalis Pritchard & Baker

Phytoseiulus (Proprioseius) meridionalis Wainstein

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) meridionalis Tseng

Proprioseius (Proprioseius) meridionalis Karg

Typhlodromus psychotriae Hirschmann (unjustified replacement name for Proprioseius meridionalis )

Material Examined (n=4; 4 ♀♀) — 1♀ (29°24 ′ 30.77 ″ N, 82°10 ′ 16.13 ″ W, 19 m, 22 August 2016, Arapaho, Organic Farm), 1♀ (29°39 ′ 15.95 ″ N, 82°31 ′ 25.49 ″ W, 32 m, 27 July

2016, Arapaho, Organic Farm), 2♀♀ (30°54 ′ 18.31 ″ N, 82°38 ′ 51.06 ″ W, 46 m, 18 August

2016, Choctaw, Conventional Farm).

Comments — Proprioseius meridionalis was recorded previously on wide range of host plants including blackberry, Rubus sp. in USA, Florida ( Chant 1957 ; De Leon 1959 ; Denmark and Evans 2011 ; Denmark and Muma 1966 ; Muma and Denmark 1970 ; Walter and Denmark 1991) and New Jersey ( Dyer and Swift 1979). In the current study, this species was collected with all phytophagous mite species, which were collected during the present study.