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

Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Mouigni, Hadji, Douin, Martial, Tixier, Marie-Stéphane & Azali, Hamza Abdou, 2021, New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Grande Comore Island (Comoros Archipelago), Acarologia 61 (2), pp. 241-273 : 264

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) lobatus Zannou, Moraes & Oliveira

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

59.

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

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

Specimens examined: six specimens (6 ♀♀) collected during this study. Mdé, INRAPE

(51 m aasl, lat. 11°44 ′ 12 ″ S, long. 43°14 ′ 59 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ on Theobroma cacao L. ( Malvaceae ), 6/XII/2018 ; Mvouni, University of Comoros (434 m aasl, lat. 11°43 ′ 11 ″ S, long. 43°16 ′ 31 ″ E),

1 ♀ on Stachytarpheta jamaicensis (Verbenaceae) , 6/XII/2018 ; Ivembeni, Banda Samlini (791

m aasl, lat. 11°29 ′ 22 ″ S, long. 43°19 ′ 36 ″ E), 2 ♀♀ on Occimum gratissimum L. ( Lamiaceae ), 7/XII/2018 ; Moroni, Le Kalyptus Hotel (24 m aasl, lat. 11°40 ′ 58 ″ S, long. 43°15 ′ 45 ″ E), 1 ♀

on Ricinus communis L. ( Euphorbiaceae ), 7/XII/2018.

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