Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira, 2008

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Anjouan Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 62-83 : 76

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. 2008:

59.

This species belongs to the rhenanus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). Its biology is totally unknown.

World distribution: Ghana, Mauritius Island, Mayotte Island, Rodrigues Island.

Specimens examined: six specimens (5 ♀♀ and 1 imm.) collected during this study. Pomoni, exit of the village (34 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 01 ″ S, 44°24 ′ 52 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Cananga odorata (Lamark) Hooker & Thomson (Annonaceae) , 2 ♀♀ and 1 imm. on Psidium cattleianum Afzelius ex Sabine (Myrtaceae) , 1 ♀ on Piper nigrum L. ( Piperaceae ) and 1 ♀ on Sygygium jambos (L.) Alston ( Myrtaceae ), 30/XI/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters of our specimens fit well with those of the original description based on the specimens collected from Ghana, Western Africa by Ueckermann et al. (2008) and with those of specimens from Rodrigues ( Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020a), Mauritius ( Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020b) and Mayotte ( Kreiter et al. 2020a).

Characters Anjouan Island Kenya (1, the Mayotte Characters Anjouan Island Kenya (1, the Mayotte

(1) (this study) holotype) Island (2) (1) (this study) holotype) Island (2)

Dsl 315 298 288 – 308 st1-st1 48 – 38

Dsw 205 179 168 – 180 st2-st2 60 61 53

j1 13 Not visible 15 st3-st3 59 – 48

j3 20 16 15 – 20 st1-st3 63 58 55

j4 15 16 13 – 15 st4-st4 63 – 43

j5 15 16 15 Gensl 100 – 93

j6 20 19 20 Gensw st5 63 53 50

Gensw post.

J2 25 22 21 – 23 68 – 75

corn.

J5 10 10 9 – 10 st5-st5 55 – –

r3 18 16 15 Lisl 20 – 18 – 23

R1 18 16 15 – 18 Lisw 5 – 4

s4 20 19 18 – 20 sisl 10 – 10

s6 25 22 21 – 23 Vsl 110 99 95 – 100

S2 30 24 26 – 28 Vsw ZV2 63 90 83 – 90

S4 30 27 28 Vsw anus 70 – 68 – 75

S5 25 22 23 gv3 – gv3 25 – 26

z2 18 14 13 – 15 JV5 26 – 25 – 27

z3 18 14 15 StIV 20 18 17 – 18

z4 20 18 15 – 18 Scl 15 14 13 – 15

z5 19 18 18 Scw 5 – 5

Z4 35 29 30 – 33 Fdl 25 23 25

Z5 36 35 33 – 35 No teeth Fd Not visible 3 – 4 4

Mdl 26 25 25 – 28

No teeth Md Not visible 2 2

Sources of measurements – Kenya: Ueckermann et al. (2008), original description base on a single female; Mayotte Island ( Kreiter et al.

2020a); –: not provided.