Amblyseiulella Muma, 1961: 276

Kar, Anamika & Karmakar, Krishna, 2022, Description of nine new species of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Sikkim, a north eastern States of India, Zootaxa 5182 (3), pp. 201-237 : 205

Genus Amblyseiulella Muma, 1961: 276

Amblyseiulella Muma, 1961: 276

Paraphytoseius (Tropicoseius) Gupta, 1979: 80 .

Type species: Typhlodromus heveae Oudemans, 1930: 97 .

There are 15 nominal species in this genus ( Demite et al., 2021). The members of this genus are characterised by dorsal shield much longer than wide, without strong ornamentation, with lateral margin of female strongly incised at the level s4, and with a prominent pair of pores associated with seta z5, female ventrianal shield much longer than wide with three pairs of preanal setae, leg I-III without macrosetae. Chant & McMurtry (2003) proposed 2 species groups based on the presence or absence of seta S5, the domatorum group with this seta present; and the heveae group with this seta absent. The new species belongs to heveae group with absence of seta S5.