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Issue: Vol. 5496 No. 4: 21 Aug. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5496.4.6
Page range: 567-578
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New species and new records of the family Phytoseiidae Berlese (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Saudi Arabia

Department of Plant Protection; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; Riyadh; 11451; Saudi Arabia
Department of Plant Protection; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; Riyadh; 11451; Saudi Arabia
Department of Plant Protection; College of Food and Agriculture Sciences; King Saud University; Riyadh; 11451; Saudi Arabia
Acari Kuzinellus Neoseiulus paspalivorus transvaalensis Typhlodromus

Abstract

A new species of the genus Neoseiulus Hughes (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae), belonging to the paspalivorus species group, N. arabicus sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on females. Two species are reported as new to the mite fauna of Saudi Arabia—Kuzinellus blairi (McMurtry & Moraes) and Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) transvaalensis (Nesbitt). A key to the species in the transvaalensis species group of Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) is also provided.

 

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