Paraphytoseius horrifer
Creators: name: Kreiter, Serge
name: Payet, Rose-My
name: Douin, Martial
name: Fontaine, Olivier
name: , Jacques
name: Fillâtre
name: Bellec, Fabrice Le
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Paraphytoseius
Paraphytoseius horrifer

description: <i>Paraphytoseius horrifer</i> (Pritchard &amp; Baker) <i>Amblyseius</i> (<i>Ptenoseius</i>) <i>horrifer</i> Pritchard &amp; Baker, 1962: 295. <i>Amblyseius horrifer</i>, Meyer &amp; Rodrigues 1966: 30. <i>Amblyseius</i> (<i>Paraphytoseius</i>) <i>horrifer</i>, van der Merwe 1968: 169. <i>Proprioseius</i> (<i>Paraphytoseius</i>) <i>horrifer</i>, Karg 1983: 302. <i>Paraphytoseius horrifer</i>, Moraes <i>et al.</i> 1986: 105; Beard 2001: 84; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2003a: 37; Moraes <i>et al.</i> 2004a: 152; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2007: 53. In our specimens of this species, setae <i>S5</i> are absent. So accordingly with Chant and McMurtry (2003b) all specimens belong to the <i>orientalis</i> species group. Accordingly with these previous authors, and with Moraes <i>et al.</i> (2007), we consider that <i>P. horrifer</i> and <i>P. orientalis</i> are different valid species. Our specimens with longer setae <i>s4</i>, <i>Z4</i>, <i>Z5</i>, and lacking a distinctly short, thick, spatulate macroseta on genu I. This species is widely distributed in Sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. The biology of <i>P. horrifer</i> remains totally unknown. This is the first mention of this species from La Réunion Island. <b>Specimens examined</b>: 13 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; + 1 im. in total, 12 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; measured. Le Tampon – Ligne des 400 (aasl 463 m, Long 55°30’36” E, Lat 21°17’24” S), 1 &amp;male; + 2 im. on <i>Ipomoea purpurea</i> (L.), 11/2/2017; Ravine Langevin – Grand-Galet Waterfall (aasl 850 m, Long 55°21’33” E, Lat 21°17’47” S), 7 &amp;female;&amp;female; on <i>Desmodium incanum</i> DC., 11/12/2016; Forêt de Bélouve – Gîte (aasl 1500 m, Long 55°33’36” E, Lat 21°6’0” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>Fuchsia boliviana</i> Carrière, 20/12/16; Cilaos – Village (aasl 991 m, Long 55°27’0” E, Lat 21°8’24” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>Acalypha hispida</i> Burm. f., 8/1/17; Saint-Pierre – Bassin-Plat CIRAD Research Station (aasl 153 m, Long 55°29’18” E, Lat 21°19’25” S), 1 &amp;female; in plot BM, 23/8/2016; 1 &amp;female; on <i>M. coromandelianum</i>, 19/6/2017; 1 &amp;female; on <i>A. viridis</i>, 20/6/2017. <b>Remarks</b>: even if lengths of setae seem very variable in <i>P. horrifer</i> in the literature (van der Merwe 1968; Moraes <i>et al.</i> 2007), measurements of morphological characters of La Réunion specimens (Table 11) agree well with measurements found in the literature, being however slightly shorter for almost all characters compared with female and male specimens of South Africa (van der Merwe 1968).
description: Published as part of <i>Kreiter, Serge, Payet, Rose-My, Douin, Martial, Fontaine, Olivier, Jacques, Fillâtre &amp; Bellec, Fabrice Le, 2020, Phytoseiidae of La Réunion Island (Acari: Mesostigmata): three new species and two males described, new synonymies, and new records, pp. 111-195 in Acarologia 60 (1)</i> on page 134, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204361, http://zenodo.org/record/3879818
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