Amblyseiini, , Wainstein, 1962

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

Tribe Amblyseiini

Amblyseiini, Wainstein, 1962: 26 .

Chant & McMurtry (2004a) gave a full description of this Amblyseiinae tribe. Diagnostic characters used for this tribe ( Chant & McMurtry, 2006) are: idiosoma with more than 25 pairs of setae, ratio between the length of seta s4 and that of seta Z1 greater than 3.1 (except for the species of Paraamblyseius Muma ), seta S4 present, dorsal shield entire, peritrematal shield fused anteriorly to the dorsal shield, sternal shield without median posterior projection and genua II and III usually with macrosetae.