Amblyseius parasundi Blommers, 1974

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Anjouan Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 62-83 : 70-71

Amblyseius parasundi Blommers

Amblyseius (Proprioseiopsis) parasundi Blommers 1974: 144 .

Amblyseius parasundi, Moraes et al. . 1986: 27, 2004a: 46.

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) parasundi , Denmark & Muma 1989: 19.

This species belongs to the sundi species group by the absence of setae Z1 and sundi species subgroup by having an elongated and a tube­like spermatheca. Despite mentioning it as abundant on fruit trees in Madagascar preying on tetranychid mites ( Blommers and Gutierrez

1975), its biology is totally unknown.

World distribution: Madagascar Island.

Specimens examined: seven specimens (5 ♀♀ and 2 imm.) collected during this study.

Tsembehou, inside the village (446 m aasl, 12°12 ′ 27 ″ S, 44°27 ′ 54 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ on Theobroma cacao L. ( Malvaceae ), 1 ♀ and 1 imm. on Litchi chinensis Sonnerat (Sapindaceae) , 29/XI/2018 ; Chandra, inside the village (448 m aasl, 12°11 ′ 56 ″ S, 44°27 ′ 52 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ and 1 imm. on Citrus limon (L.) Burman ( Rutaceae ), 29/XI/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements fit well with few measurements values mentioned in the literature ( Blommers 1974, Denmark and Muma 1989) as well as with specimens from Mayotte Island ( Kreiter et al. 2020a). Amblyseius parasundi is reported by Blommers (1974) as being a thelytokous species in mass­rearing and field collected specimens and this information is also mentioned in Denmark and Muma (1989).