Graminaseius graminis (Chant)

ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, Acarologia 63 (3), pp. 691-724 : 702

Graminaseius graminis (Chant)

Amblyseius graminis Chant 1956: 34 .

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) graminis, Chant 1959: 89 ; Arutunjan 1970.

Amblyseius (Typhlodromopsis) graminis, Muma 1961: 287 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) graminis, Westerboer & Bernhard, 1963: 636 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) graminis, Wainstein 1973: 178 , 1975: 920, 1977: 1415; Ueckermann

& Loots 1988: 132.

Neoseiulus graminis, Moraes et al. 1986: 81 .

Amblyseius (Typhlodromips) graminis, Karg 1991 .

Amblyseius graminis, Moraes et al. 2004a: 26 .

Graminaseius graminis, Chant & McMurtry 2004: 219 , 2007: 85.

Graminaseius collyerae ( Chant, 1959) : 87 (Synonymy according to Athias-Henriot 1966). Graminaseius exiguus ( Hirschmann, 1962) : 26 (Synonymy according to Athias-Henriot 1966).

World distribution — Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Azores, Chile, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Moldova, Montenegro, Morocco, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and USA.

Previous records from Morocco — This species was already reported by McMurtry and Bounfour (1989) and Tixier et al. (2016) from several regions on many plant families such as Apiaceae , Asteraceae , Brassicaceae , and Lamiaceae .

Specimens examined — 3 ♀♀ on Malva parviflora L. ( Malvaceae ) in May 2017 at Chabaika orchard; 2 ♀♀ on the same plant in July 2017 at the same domain.

Remarks — The description and measurements of the adult females collected agree with those provided by Döker et al. (2019) for specimens from Turkey. This species is distributed worldwide and has been collected on a great variety of plants including citrus ( Kreiter et al. 2010 ; Sahraoui et al. 2012) and horticultural crops ( Tixier et al. 2016).