Amblyseius chiapensis

Moraes, Gilberto José De, Barbosa, Marina Ferraz De Camargo & Castro, Tatiane Marie Martins Gomes De, 2013, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from natural ecosystems in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, Zootaxa 3700 (3), pp. 301-347 : 306

Amblyseius chiapensis De Leon

Amblyseius chiapensis DeLeon, 1961: 85 ; 1962: 175; McMurtry, 1983: 250; Moraes et al., 1986: 10; 1991: 118; 2004b: 19; Moraes & Mesa, 1988: 72; McMurtry & Moraes, 1989: 185; Denmark et al., 1999: 22; Gondim Jr. & Moraes, 2001: 67; Chant & McMurtry, 2004a: 199; 2007: 78; Lofego et al., 2004: 3; 2009: 42; Guanilo et al., 2008a: 4; 2008b: 4.

Typhlodromus chiapensis . — Hirschmann, 1962: 2.

Amblyseius (Multiseius) chiapensis . — Denmark & Muma, 1989: 94; Denmark & Evans, 2011: 74.

Amblyseius triplaris DeLeon, 1967: 25 (synonymy according to Denmark & Muma, 1989).

Specimens examined. Cananéia, February 2001, 1 female on Guilielma sp. and 1 female Mangifera indica L.; Luis Antonio, December 2001, 1 female on Pouteria torta Radlk. ; Pirassununga, April 2001, 3 females on unidentified Asteraceae ; Pirassununga, December 2001, 1 female on Myrcia guianensis DC.; São Carlos, September 2001, 4 females on Duguetia furfuracea (A. St. Hal.) Benth. & Hook. f. and São Carlos, December 2001, 1 female on Ocotea pulchella Mart

Previous records. Brazil [States of Bahia, Ceará, Maranhão, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and São Paulo (Moraes et al., 2004b); Paraná (Furtado et al., 2006); Mato Grosso (Demite et al., 2009); Minas Gerais (Silva et al., 2010) and Roraima (Gondim Jr. et al., 2012)]; Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico and Venezuela (Moraes et al., 2004b); Argentina (Guanilo et al., 2008a) and Dominican Republic (Ferragut et al., 2011).

Remarks. The measurements of six adult females collected fit the original description, except for the shorter Z5 [180 (175–197) for these specimens and 214–235 in the original description]. Gondim Jr. & Moraes (2001) also reported shorter Z5 (185–198) for specimens from the State of São Paulo. The numbers of teeth of the movable (three) and fixed (12) cheliceral digits differ from what was mentioned in the original description (one and 8–10 respectively), but they are close to what was reported by McMurtry (1983) and Moraes & Mesa (1988).