Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis (Nesbitt)

Mirza, Jawwad Hassan, Kamran, Muhammad & Alatawi, Fahad Jaber, 2024, New species and new records of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Saudi Arabia, Zootaxa 5496 (4), pp. 567-578 : 574-575

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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis (Nesbitt) View in CoL

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Kampimodromus transvaalensis Nesbitt, 1951: 55 .

Typhlodromus (Neoseiulus) transvaalensis View in CoL . — Pritchard & Baker, 1962: 222.

Typhlodromus transvaalensis View in CoL . — Chant & Baker, 1965: 5.

Clavidromus transvaalensis . — Muma & Denmark, 1968: 238.

Mumaseius transvaalensis . — Abbasova, 1970: 1410.

Anthoseius (Anthoseius) transvaalensis View in CoL . — Wainstein & Vartapetov, 1973: 104.

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis View in CoL . — Chant & McMurtry, 1994: 252; 2007: 157, Moraes et al., 2004: 355.

Specimen Examined: Six females, Coffea arabica View in CoL L. ( Rubiaceae View in CoL ), 17°23.93 N, 43°3.95 E, AlHashar Mountain, Jizan, 27 February 2024, Coll. N. Elgoni.

Distribution: Widely distributed ( Demite et al., 2024), Saudi Arabia (present study).

Remarks: The newly collected specimen morphologically resembles the original description and some other re-descriptions of T. (A.) transvaalensis , with some minor variations of setal lengths ( Table 2 View TABLE 2 ).

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