Amblydromalus species

Demite, Peterson Rodrigo, Rezende, José Marcos, Dahmer, Priscila Carvalho, Cavalcante, Ana Cristina C. & Lofego, Antonio Carlos, 2021, A new species of Amblydromalus Chant & McMurtry (Acari: Phytoseiidae), with notes on occurrence of genus in South America, Acarologia 61 (3), pp. 527-537 : 533

Occurrences of Amblydromalus species in South America.

With the description of A. amazonicus n. sp., the genus currently has 24 described species.

Of these 13 are reported on the South American subcontinent ( Table 1). All 13 species are registered in Brazil, five described in the last six years ( Nuvoloni et al. 2015a, 2015b, Zannou et al. 2017, Demite et al. 2019 and this study). On the other hand, no species of this genus has been registered in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. This difference in the number of records between countries is mainly due to the lack of surveys of mites in the countries. The last five described species of this genus were collected in regions hitherto little explored (Central-West, Northeast and North regions of Brazil). In addition, the records indicate a probable preference of these mites for regions of a warmer climate, which could explain the absence of these mites in regions further south of the continent.