Ueckermannseius gutierrezi Kreiter, 2021

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Abo-Shnaf, Reham & Douin, Martial, 2021, New Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Mascareignes and Comoros Archipelagos (Indian Ocean): one new record, three new species groups and description of six new species and of six unknown males, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 845-889 : 869

Ueckermannseius gutierrezi Kreiter n. sp.

Zoobank: A56A4712-1C00-4F5B-84BE-2B9592180D24 Classification. Ueckermannseius gutierezzi Kreiter n. sp. belongs to:

• the subfamily Amblyseiinae (absence of dorsolateral setae z3 and s6 and the caudoventral seta JV3),

• to the tribe Euseiini (sternal shield with median posterior projection, deutosternal groove> 5 µm in width, forward migration of pre-anal setae JV2 and ZV2),

• to the subtribe Typhlodromalina (chelicera of normal size and shape, with prominent teeth evenly distributed along fixed digit, peritreme usually extending to level of j1, deutosternal groove narrow, 4–7 µm width),

• to the genus Ueckermannseius (dorsal setae short/minute, shorter than distances between their bases, seta Z4 not as long as distance between its base and that of S4, dorsal shield smooth, except for anterolateral striation) ( Chant and McMurtry 2007),

• to the new species-group havu Kreiter , with spermatheca with the atrium bulbous, the calyx basally swollen, bladder-like and then elongate and slender. This kind of spermatheca is shared by 13 African species of Ueckermannseius we proposed to include in the new species group havu : U. bundibugyoensis Moraes, Zannou & Oliveira , U. eastafricae Moraes, Zannou & Oliveira , U. havu (Pritchard & Baker) , U. lugula El-Banhawy & Irungu , U. macrosetosus (van der Merwe) , U. mangrovei El-Banhawy & Knapp , U. nesiotus (Ueckermann & Kreiter) , U. neohavu Moraes, Zannou & Oliveira , U. parahavu Moraes, Zannou & Oliveira , U. quilicii (Ueckermann & Kreiter) , U. sabatiae El-Banhawy & Knapp , U. saltus ( Denmark & Matthysse) and U. ueckermanni Moraes, Zannou & Oliveira.