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Issue: Vol. 3827 No. 3: 4 Jul. 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-07-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3827.3.3
Page range: 331–342
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Four new records and two new species of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Turkey, with a key to the Turkish species

Çukurova University, Agricultural Faculty, Plant Protection Department, Acarology Laboratory, 01330 Adana, Turkey.
Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology & Entomology, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
Çukurova University, Agricultural Faculty, Plant Protection Department, Acarology Laboratory, 01330 Adana, Turkey.
Çukurova University, Agricultural Faculty, Plant Protection Department, Acarology Laboratory, 01330 Adana, Turkey.
Laboratory of Agricultural Zoology & Entomology, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
taxonomy description predatory mites fauna biological control

Abstract

Four species of phytoseiid mites namely Neoseiulus knappi Zannou, Moraes, Ueckermann & Oliveira, Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) octogenipilus Kreiter, Tixier & Duso, Typhlodromus (T.) phialatus Athias-Henriot, and Typhloseiella isotricha (Athias-Henriot) are recorded for the first time from Turkey. Two new species Neoseiulus sekeroglui Döker & Stathakis n. sp. and Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) antakyaensis Stathakis & Döker n. sp. are described and illustrated. A key to the all known phytoseiid species for the Turkish fauna is also provided.