Neoseiulus sekeroglui Döker & Stathakis

Barbar, Ziad, Parker, Bruce & Skinner, Margaret, 2022, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Syria: new records and first description of the male of Eharius stathakisi Döker, Acarologia 62 (1), pp. 12-21 : 18

Neoseiulus sekeroglui Döker & Stathakis

Specimens collected — Attabiyyat: one ♀ from ground litter under Pinus halepensis Miller (Pinaceae) , 16 March 2020 ; Slanfeh: one ♀ on Centaurea calcitrapa L. ( Asteraceae ), 20 April 2021.

Female (n = 2).

Dorsum — Length of dorsal shield (333–350), width (distance between bases s of 4) (163– 185). Measurements of dorsal setae as follows: j1 (14–15), j3 (27–28), j4 (16–18), j5 17, j6 17,

J2 18, J5 (12–14), z2 (21–23), z4 26, z5 16, Z1 25, Z4 (42–48), Z5 64, s4 (36–38), S2 (34–35),

S4 (31–34), S5 (23–25), r3 (22–25) and R1 (21–22).

Peritreme — Extending to level of setae j1.

Venter — Distances between st1–st1 55, st2–st2 (64–67), st3–st3 (72–73), st1–st3 (65–68), st4–st4 (65–68), st5–st5 (62–68). Ventrianal shield pentagonal, with three pairs of pre-anal setae (JV1, JV2 and ZV2), and one pair of small solenostomes posteromedian to JV2. Length of ventrianal shield (114–118), width at level of ZV2 106, width at level of anus (85–87). Setae JV5 (45–55) in length.

Chelicera — Fixed digit (32–33) long with four teeth and pilus dentilis ; movable digit (29–31) long with one tooth.

Spermatheca — As described by Döker et al. (2014), 20 in length.

Legs — Measurement of the macroseta on leg IV, StIV (68–75).

Remarks — This is the second international record of this species. Morphological characteristics of the Syrian specimens fit well with those in the original description ( Döker et al. 2014).