Amblyseius anacardii De Leon, 1967

Kreiter, Serge & Douin, Martial, 2021, Phytoseiid mites of the French Guiana (Acari: Mesostigmata), Acarologia 61 (2), pp. 468-478 : 472

Amblyseius anacardii De Leon

Amblyseius anacardii De Leon 1967: 23 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 7 ; 1991: 117, 2000: 238, 2004:

14; Kreiter et al. 2006: 3, Chant & McMurtry 2004: 203, 2007: 75.

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) anacardii , Denmark & Muma 1989: 17.

This species belongs to the obtusus species group of the genus Amblyseius and to the aerialis species subgroup. Amblyseius anacardii is frequent in Antilles ( Moraes et al. 2000, Kreiter et al. 2006) and in Central America. Its biology remains unknown. This is the first record in French Guiana.

World distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, Les Saintes, Marie-Galante, Martinique, Saint-Martin, Trinidad.

Specimens examined: four specimens (2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, 1 imm.) collected during this study. Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Chemin de Mana (20 m aasl, lat. 5°29 ′ 18 ″ N, long. 53°58 ′ 02 ″ W), 1 ♀ and 1 imm. on Citrus limon (L.) Burman ( Rutaceae ), 1 ♂ on Cocos nucifera L. ( Arecaceae ) and 1 ♀ on Hibiscus rosa-sinensis L. ( Malvaceae ), 27/X/2001.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements fit well the measurement given by De Leon (1967), Denmark and Muma (1989) and Moraes et al. (2000).