Amblyseius compositus

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 compositus Denmark & Muma

Amblyseius compositus Denmark & Muma, 1973: 240; Moraes et al., 1986: 11; 2004a: 21; Gondim Jr. & Moraes, 2001: 67; Chant & McMurtry, 2004a: 199; 2007: 78; Lofego et al., 2004: 3.

Amblyseius (Multiseius) compositus . — Denmark & Muma, 1989: 95.

Specimens examined. Cananéia, July 2001, 3 females on Lycopodiella cernua (L.) Pic. Serm.; Itu, August 2002, 1 female on Metrodorea stipularis Mart. and 7 females on Trichilia pallida Sw.; Pariquera-Açu, July 2002, 1 female on Cabralea canjerana (Vell.) Mart. ; Piracicaba, August 2002, 5 females on Balfourodendron riedelianum Engl. , 2 females on Ligustrum sp., 1 female on unidentified plant. 1 female on Diatenopteryx sorbifolia Radlk. ; Pirassununga, April 2001, 1 female on unidentified Malpighiaceae ; São Carlos, September 2001, 1 female on Didymopanax vinosum March and São Carlos, December 2001, 1 female on Styrax pohlii A.DC

Previous records. Brazil [States of Bahia, Piauí and São Paulo (Moraes et al., 2004b); Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul (Furtado et al., 2006); Pernambuco (Vansconcelos et al., 2006); Minas Gerais (Silva et al., 2010) and Tocantis (Cruz et al., 2012)].

Remarks. Measurements of six adult females collected in general fit the values given in the original description. Although the original description of A. compositus reports the macroseta of tarsus IV as being 37 long, measurements of two paratypes showed the length of this macroseta to be 53–61 long, values close to those of specimens collected in this study. Measurements of the specimens collected are similar to those provided by Gondim Jr. & Moraes (2001) and Lofego et al. (2004) for specimens of the State of São Paulo. In the specimens collected in this study, the lengths of j3 and Z5 were 43 (35–50) and 127 (105–144) respectively. The minimum values correspond approximately to what was reported in the original description of the species, whereas the maximum values correspond to what was reported as the respective upper end of the ranges by Gondim Jr. & Moraes (2001) for specimens from the State of São Paulo.