Phytoseius juvenis Wainstein & Arutunjan, 1501

Kreiter, Serge, Amiri, Karima, Douin, Martial, Bohinc, Tanja, Trdan, Stanislav & Tixier, Marie-Stéphane, 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Slovenia (Acari: Mesostigmata): new records and first description of the male ofAmblyseius microorientalis, Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 203-242 : 227

Phytoseius juvenis Wainstein & Arutunjan

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) juvenis Wainstein & Arutunjan, 1970: 1501 .

Phytoseius (Phytoseius) juvenis, Moraes et al. 1986: 223 .

Dubininellus juvenis, Karg 1991: 25-26 .

Phytoseius juvenis, Moraes et al. 2004: 242 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

Phytoseius ciliatus Wainstein (synonymy according to Rahmani et al. 2010).

Like the previous species and for the same reasons, P. juvenis species belongs to the horridus species group of the genus Phytoseius ( Chant and McMurtry 2007) .

The biology of this species seems totally unknown.

This is the first report of that species in Slovenia.

World distribution: Armenia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, Finland, France, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine.

Specimens examined: 6 ♀♀, 1 ♂ and 3 immatures in total. Arnovo Selo (aasl 192 m, lat. 47°58’07”N, long. 15°33’49”E), 6 ♀♀, 1 ♂ and 3 immatures on Malus domestica L. ( Rosaceae ), 19/VI/2018.

Remarks: The measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Kolodochka (1978) and by Karg (1991).