Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira, 2008

Kreiter, Serge, Abo-Shnaf, Reham I. A. & Payet, Rose-My, 2020, Phytoseiid mites of Mayotte Island (Acari: Mesostigmata), Acarologia 60 (3), pp. 622-642 : 637

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. 2008:

59.

This species belongs to the rhenanus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). The biology of that species is totally unknown. It was recently recorded from Rodrigues Island

( Kreiter and Abo-Shnaf 2020a) and from Mauritius ( Kreiter and Abo-Shnaf 2020b).

World distribution: Benin, Ghana, Mauritius Island, Rodrigues Island.

Specimens examined: 10 ♀♀ specimens in total. Coconi, Maison de L’Office National des Forêts (156 m aasl, 12°50 ′ 1 ″ S, 45°8 ′ 5 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Persea americana Miller (Lauraceae) ,

2 ♀♀ on Terminalia catappa L. Combretaceae ) and 1 ♀ on an unknown host plant, 24/XI/2018;

Combani, gîte du Mont Combani (437 m aasl, 12°48 ′ 23 ″ S, 45°9 ′ 17 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Bidens pilosa

L. ( Asteraceae ), 25/XI/2018; Coconi, Lycée Agricole (189 m aasl, 12°50 ′ 7 ″ S, 45°8 ′ 11 ″ E), 1

♀ on Capsicum annuum L. ( Solanaceae ), 2 ♀♀ on Rubus alceifolius Poiret (Rosaceae) , 1 ♀ on

Ageratum conizoides L. ( Asteraceae ), and 1 ♀ on Solanum mauritianum Scopoli (Solanaceae) ,

26/XI/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements of the original description by Ueckermann et al. (2008)

concerning specimens from Ghana, in Western Africa and measurements of specimens from

Rodrigues and Mauritius, respectively ( Kreiter and Abo-Shnaf 2020a, b).

Sources of measurements – Kenya: Ueckermann et al. (2008), original description base on a single female; –: not provided.