Transeius mickaeli Kreiter, 2020

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Douin, Martial, Fontaine, Olivier, Jacques, Fillâtre & Bellec, Fabrice Le, 2020, Phytoseiidae of La Réunion Island (Acari: Mesostigmata): three new species and two males described, new synonymies, and new records, Acarologia 60 (1), pp. 111-195 : 144

Transeius mickaeli Kreiter n. sp.

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Diagnosis — Transeius mickaeli Kreiter n. sp. belongs also to the subfamily Amblyseiinae (see above description of T. maelliae n. sp.), to the tribe Amblyseiini (see above), to the subtribe Amblyseiina (see above), to the genus Transeius (see above) ( Chant and McMurtry 2007) and to the species group bellottii and to the species subgroup bellottii (Chant and McMurtry 2004a).

Transeius mickaeli n. sp. is different from T. maelliae n. sp. described above, by several characters indicated above in the description of T. maelliae (see diagnosis of T. maelliae ).

In this subgroup bellottii, the closest species of T. mickaeli n. sp. is Transeius quichua (McMurtry and Moraes) . Transeius mickaeli n. sp. differs however from T. quichua in having 7 solenostomes instead of 6, longer setae j1, s4, S2, Z4, and StIV and shorter setae Z5, peritreme reaching j1 and not between j1 and j3, reticulations of the dorsal shield, slight reticulations of the sternal and moreover of the ventrianal shields in the female and male, shape of the spermatheca which is saccular and bell-shaped in the new species and more cup shaped, pocular and open ( Denmark and Evans 2011) in T. quichua and the insertion of gv3 further to JV2 insertion in the new species (gv3 are very close to setae JV2 positions in T. quichua ).