Phytoseius Ribaga

Ueckermann, Eddie A., Zannou, Ignace D., De Moraes, Gilberto J., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2007, Phytoseiid mites of the subfamily Phytoseiinae (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, Zootaxa 1658 (1), pp. 1-20 : 4

Phytoseius Ribaga

Phytoseius Ribaga, 1904: 177 ; Chant & Yoshida-Shaul, 1992a: 11; Chant & McMurtry, 1994: 232; Moraes et al., 2004: 231.

Phytoseius (Phytoseius), Wainstein, 1959: 1361 .

Typhlodromus (Phytoseius), Van der Merwe, 1968: 100 .

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) Wainstein, 1959: 1361 .

Dubininellus, Muma, 1961: 293.

Phytoseius (Pennaseius) Pritchard & Baker, 1962: 223 .

Pennaseius, Schuster & Pritchard, 1963: 279 .

Stable characters mentioned by Chant & McMurtry (1994) for the species of this genus are: both setae z3 and s6 present; genu II with 7 setae; macrosetae absent on legs I–III; 0–4 macrosetae present on leg IV. Other characters as for the subfamily Phytoseiinae .

Thirteen species of this genus are reported in this study. They have: 3 pairs of preanal setae inserted along lateral margins of female ventrianal shield; 1 pair of round preanal pores; 1 pair of elongate metapodal shields (sometimes not distinguishable); Jv4 absent, peritreme extending to level of j1 (except for Phytoseius perforatus El-Badry in which it extends to level of z2), chaetotaxy of genua II and III 2-2/0, 2/0-1 and 1-2/0, 2/0-1, respectively.