Euseius ovalis ( Evans, 1953 )

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Euseius ovalis ( Evans, 1953)

Typhlodromus ovalis Evans, 1953: 458 .

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) ovalis . — Chant, 1959: 68.

Amblyseius (Typhlodromalus) ovalis . — Muma, 1961: 288.

Amblyseius ovalis . — Collyer, 1964: 634.

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) ovalis . — Ehara, 1966: 24.

Amblyseius (Euseius) ovalis . — Gupta, 1985: 348.

Diagnosis. Female: dorsal idiosomal shield mostly smooth, with lateral striations; bearing 17 pairs of setae, all (except j1 and Z5) short, Z5 serrated; posterior margin of sternal shield with a tongue-shaped median lobe. Epigynal shield smooth. Peritremes extending forward to j3. Ventrianal shield vase-shaped, smooth; solenostomes gv3 posterior to JV2. Calyx of spermathecal apparatus tubular, atrium fusiform. Cheliceral movable digit with one tooth, fixed digit with four teeth. Legs II and III each with one macroseta on genu; leg IV with three obvious macrosetae, bluntly tipped.

Specimen examined. Rarotonga, 1 female (labelled as Euseius ovaloides ), ex. Capsicum sp. leaves, associated with broad mite, 25 May 1992, by J. G. Charles (#92-162).

Remarks. This species was previously recorded on Hau ( Hibiscus tiliaceus ) from Aitutaki ( Collyer 1980). We now record this species from Rarotonga for the first time. This species is distributed in about 13 countries in the Afrotropical, Australasian, Oriental, Nearctic, and Palaearctic regions ( Moraes et al. 2004; Demite et al. 2018).