Discovery of a new species of genus Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae: Typhlodrominae) on rocky shore habitat from Lanyu Island

Abstract

Phytoseiid mites have been intensively surveyed in Taiwan during the past decades because of their potential as biological control agent. Despite the fact, many regions of Taiwan remain under-explored especially in mountain areas and neighboring islands. Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) crossostephium sp. nov. was collected from Crossostephium chinense (L.) Makino (Asteraceae) on rocky shore habitat during a survey on Lanyu Island. In this paper, presence of a phytoseiid mite on rocky shores is reported for the first time. A detailed morphological description of the new species and a key to the Taiwanese species of subgenus Anthoseius are provided.

<p class="Body"><strong>Survey of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) in the Penghu Islands with two new records and descriptions of two new species</strong></p>

“…Hibiscus tiliaceus is the most dominant plant on which we observed many phytoseiid individuals with a subtype III-a lifestyle. Also, Liao et al (2017) described T. (A.)…”

Contribution to the knowledge of the genera Euseius Wainstein and Gynaseius Wainstein (Acari: Mesostigmata: Amblyseiinae) from Taiwan

“…Knowledge regarding the fauna of Phytoseiidae in Taiwan is still increasing, with detailed investigations conducted by the present authors. To date, 59 species have been recorded from Taiwan and neighboring islands (Ehara 1970;Lo 1970;Tseng 1972;1973;1975;1976;Chang & Tseng 1978;Tseng 1983;Ho & Lo 1989;Ho et al 2003;Liao et al 2017a;2017b;2017c).…”

<p class="Body">Two new species of Typhlodromus Scheuten (Acari: Phytoseiidae) from Hainan Islands, China

“…Typhlodromus Scheuten is the most diverse, with about 460 nominal species in the world (Demite et al 2017). There are 85 species have been recorded in China, among which 83 species belong to the subgenus Anthoseius De Leon and two species belong to the subgenus Typhlodromus (Wu et al 2009;Ma et al 2016;Liao et al 2017).…”