Metaseiulus ferlai Moraes, McMurtry & Lopes

de Souza, Izabel Vieira, Sa Argolo, Poliane, Junior, Manoel Guedes Correa Gondim, Moraes, Gilberto Jose de, Bittencourt, Maria Aparecida Leao & Oliveira, Anibal Ramadan, 2015, Phytoseiid mites from tropical fruit trees in Bahia State, Brazil (Acari, Phytoseiidae), ZooKeys 533, pp. 99-131 : 119

Taxon classification Animalia Mesostigmata Phytoseiidae

Metaseiulus ferlai Moraes, McMurtry & Lopes

Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) ferlai Moraes et al., 2006: 352.

Metaseiulus ferlai : Chant and McMurtry 2007: 174.

Specimens examined.

Fazenda Barra, Anacardium occidentale , VIII-2007 (1♀).

Female.

One specimen measured. Dorsal shield 350 long, 189 wide, j1 21, j3 21, j4 14, j5 14, j6 17, J2 20, J5 9, z2 17, z3 18, z4 20, z5 15, Z4 30, Z5 29, s4 21, s6 24, S2 24, S5 21, r3 21, R1 21; distances between St1-St3 63, St2-St2 66 and St5-St5 58; ventrianal shield 116 long, 87 wide at level of ZV2 and 85 wide at level of anus; movable cheliceral digit 31 long; fixed cheliceral digit 29 long; calyx of spermatheca 25 long.

Remarks.

Measurements of the specimens collected fit the original description. This is the first record of this genus in Bahia.