Phytoseius crinitus Swirski & Shechter, 1961

Kreiter, Serge & Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A., 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Rodrigues Island (Acari: Mesostigmata), Acarologia 60 (2), pp. 449-468 : 461

Phytoseius crinitus Swirski & Shechter

Phytoseius (Dubininellus) crinitus Swirski & Shechter 1961: 102 .

Phytoseius crinitus, Amitai & Swirski 1966: 21 ; Swirski & Amitai 1966: 11; Denmark 1966: 66; Moraes et al. 1986: 220, 2004: 236; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 129.

This species belongs to the horridus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). This species was recorded in several countries of Asia, in Burundi, Madagascar ( Demite et al. 2020) and La Réunion ( Quilici et al. 2000; Demite et al. 2020). The biology of this species remains totally unknown.

World distribution: Burundi, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Madagascar Island, Philippines, La Réunion Island, Singapore, Taiwan.

Specimens examined: 2 ♀♀ in total. Quatre-Vents (293 m aasl, lat. 19°44 ′ 12 ″ S, long. 63°27 ′ 19 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Pandanus heterocarpus Balfour (Pandanaceae) , 12/XI/2018; Port-Mathurin, City Center (11 m aasl, lat. 19°40 ′ 53 ″ S, long. 63°25 ′ 17 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Ocimum americanum L. ( Lamiaceae ), 13/XI/2018.

Remarks: this species was reported before by Ferragut and Baumann (2019) from Mauritius, but it was already reported by Quilici et al. (2000) from Mascareignes Archipelago in La Réunion Island where Kreiter et al. (2020c) have recently recovered the species. Morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements in Kreiter et al. (2020c).