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

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Mohéli Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (1), pp. 94-114 : 108-109

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira

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

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This species belongs to the large rhenanus species group ( Chant and McMurtry 1994). The biology of this species is totally unknown.

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

Characters Mohéli (2) Anjouan Kenya (1, the Mayotte Characters Mohéli (2) Anjouan Kenya (1, the Mayotte

(this study) Island (1) holotype) Island (2) (this study) Island (1) holotype) Island (2)

Dsl 300 315 298 288 – 308 st1-st1 43 – 47 48 – 38

Dsw 179 205 179 168 – 180 st2-st2 55 – 60 60 61 53

j1 15 13 Not visible 15 st3-st3 58 59 – 48

j3 20 20 16 15 – 20 st1-st3 55 – 58 63 58 55

j4 18 15 16 13 – 15 st4-st4 65 63 – 43

j5 18 15 16 15 Gensl 95 100 – 93

j6 23 20 19 20 Gensw st5 60 63 53 50

J2 28 – 30 25 22 21 – 23 Gensw post. corn. 73 68 – 75

J5 10 10 10 9 – 10 st5-st5 55 55 – –

r3 16 – 18 18 16 15 Lisl 25 20 – 18 – 23

R1 17 – 18 18 16 15 – 18 Lisw 3 5 – 4

s4 20 – 23 20 19 18 – 20 sisl 10 10 – 10

s6 25 – 26 25 22 21 – 23 Vsl 103 110 99 95 – 100

S2 30 30 24 26 – 28 Vsw ZV2 90 63 90 83 – 90

S4 29 – 30 30 27 28 Vsw anus 73 70 – 68 – 75

S5 25 25 22 23 gv3 – gv3 24 25 – 26

z2 16 18 14 13 – 15 JV5 25 26 – 25 – 27

z3 18 – 20 18 14 15 StIV 16 – 20 20 18 17 – 18

z4 21 – 23 20 18 15 – 18 Scl 14 – 15 15 14 13 – 15

z5 20 19 18 18 Scw 8 – 12 5 – 5

Z4 33 – 35 35 29 30 – 33 Fdl 23 25 23 25

Z5 35 – 37 36 35 33 – 35 No teeth Fd 3 Not visible 3 – 4 4

Mdl 25 26 25 25 – 28

No teeth Md 2 Not visible 2 2

Sources of measurements – Kenya: Ueckermann et al. (2008), original description base on a single female; Mayotte Island (Kreiter et al. 2020a); –: not provided.

Specimens examined: ten specimens (9 ♀♀ and 1 imm.) collected during this study. Fomboni, inside the town (15 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 29 ″ S, 43°44 ′ 35 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ + 1 imm. on Abutilon hirtum (Lamarck) Sweet (Malvaceae) and 4 ♀♀ on Hibiscus tiliaceus L. ( Malvaceae ), 2/XII/2018 ; Bandar­Es­Salam, Les Abous Inn (23 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 37 ″ S, 43°45 ′ 27 ″ E), 1 ♀ on Cajanus cajan L. ( Fabaceae ), 2/XII/2018 ; Bangoma, Les Hauts (137 m aasl, 12°17 ′ 18 ″ S, 43°43 ′ 41 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ on Cananga odorata (Lamarck) Hooker & Thomson (Malvaceae) , 4/XII/2018.

Remarks: morphological and morphometric characters and all measurements of our specimens fit well with measurements of the original description by Zannou, Moraes and Oliveira in Ueckermann et al. (2008) concerning specimens from Ghana, Western Africa. And with measurements of specimens from Rodrigues (Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020a), Mauritius ( Kreiter and Abo­Shnaf 2020b), Mayotte (Kreiter et al. 2020a) and Anjouan ( Kreiter et al. 2021). This species seems rather common in the Indian Ocean Islands, except in La Réunion Island.