Arrenoseiina Chant & McMurtry

De Moraes, Gilberto J., Zannou, Ignace D., Ueckermann, Eddie A., Oliveira, Anibal R., Hanna, Rachid & Yaninek, John S., 2007, Species of the subtribes Arrenoseiina and Proprioseiopsina (Tribe Amblyseiini) and the tribe Typhlodromipsini (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from sub-Saharan Africa, Zootaxa 1448 (1), pp. 1-39 : 3

Subtribe Arrenoseiina Chant & McMurtry

Arrenoseiina , Chant & McMurtry, 2004a: 220.

Chant & McMurtry (2004b) gave a full description of this subtribe. Diagnostic characters used are: brownish to reddish in color, strong sclerotization of the idiosomal shields, broad and rotund dorsal shield, seta J2 usually present (if absent, then seta j5 also absent), sternal and ventrianal shields usually wider than long and peritrematal shield with ectal strip.

Of the 5 genera belonging to this subtribe ( Chant & McMurtry, 2004b), only Phytoscutus Muma is known to occur in sub-Saharan Africa.