Neoseiulus californicus
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
Neoseiulus
Neoseiulus californicus

description: <i>Neoseiulus californicus</i> (McGregor) <i>Typhlodromus californicus</i> McGregor 1954: 89. <i>Amblyseius californicus</i>, Schuster &amp; Pritchard 1963: 271. <i>Cydnodromus californicus</i>, Athias-Henriot 1977: 62. <i>Amblyseius</i> (<i>Amblyseius</i>) <i>californicus</i>, Ueckermann &amp; Loots 1988: 150; Ehara <i>et al.</i> 1994: 126. <i>Amblyseius</i> (<i>Neoseiulus</i>) <i>californicus</i>, Ehara &amp; Amano 1998: 33. <i>Neoseiulus californicus,</i> Moraes <i>et al.</i> 1986: 73; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2003a: 21; Moraes <i>et al.</i> 2004a: 109; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2007: 25; Guanilo <i>et al.</i> 2008a: 27, 2008b: 19. <i>Neoseiulus chilenensis</i> Dosse 1958: 55 (synonymy according to McMurtry &amp; Badii 1989). <i>Neoseiulus mungeri</i> McGregor 1954: 92 (synonymy according to Schuster &amp; Pritchard 1963). <i>Neoseiulus wearnei</i> Schicha 1987: 103 (Synonymy according to Tixier <i>et al.</i> 2014). Like the previous species, <i>N. californicus</i> belongs also to the <i>cucumeris</i> species group of <i>Neoseiulus</i> (Chant and McMurtry 2003a). This widespread species (Moraes <i>et al.</i> 2004; Demite <i>et al.</i> 2019) is considered by McMurtry and Croft (1997) to be a specialized predator, Type 2. Nevertheless, it has characteristics of both specialist and generalist predatory mites (Castagnoli and Simoni 2003). It prefers to feed on spider mites (Gomez <i>et al.</i> 2009), but can also consume other mite species like tarsonemid mites [<i>Phytonemus pallidus</i> (Banks)] (Easterbrook <i>et al.</i> 2001), small insects such as thrips (Rodriguez-Reina <i>et al.</i> 1992) and even pollen when the primary prey is unavailable (Rhodes and Liburd 2006). It can migrate from grasses to fruit trees or grapevines and vice versa (Auger <i>et al.</i> 1999). It is a specialist predator of <i>T. urticae</i> on annual plants and woody species, and of <i>Panonychus ulmi</i> (Koch) and various <i>Tetranychus</i> spp. (and perhaps eriophyid mites) on trees and less frequently on grapevines (Auger <i>et al.</i> 1999). <i>N. californicus</i> is well-known as a BCA sold in many countries around the world for the management of spider mites in greenhouses but also in outdoor crops such as fruit crops in Europe. This is the first mention of that species for La Réunion Island. Sources of measurements – Australia: Schicha (1977); -: not provided. <b>Specimens examined</b>: 18 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 2 &amp;male;&amp;male; in total, 14 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 2 &amp;male;&amp;male; measured. Ravine des Cabris – Ligne des Bambous, Lassay (aasl 221 m, Long 55°29’38” E, Lat 21°17’17” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>Amaranthus viridis</i> L., 5/12/2016; Le Tampon – Grand Tampon (aasl 1100 m, Long 55°34’12” E, Lat 21°16’48” S), 6 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; on <i>Cyperus rotundus</i> L., 1 &amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; on <i>Plantago lanceolata</i> L. and 1 &amp;female; on <i>Solanum mauritianum</i> Scop., 18/1/2017; Montvert-les-Hauts – EARL Le Mont Vert farm (aasl 582 m, Long 55°32’19” E, Lat 21°19’42” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>Fragaria</i> sp., 4/8/2015, 1 &amp;female; on <i>C. annuum</i>, 23/8/2016; Le 19 e – Plaine des Caffres, JL Robert farm (aasl 1000 m, Long 55°32’9” E, Lat 21°14’16” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>Physalis peruviana</i> L., and 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; on <i>Emilia sonchifolia</i> (L.) DC., 15/12/2015; Saint-Pierre – Bassin-Plat CIRAD Research Station (aasl 153 m, Long 55°29’18” E, Lat 21°19’25” S), 4 &amp;female;&amp;female; in plots BM and CC, 4/4/2017. <b>Remarks</b>: measurements of characters of the 14 female specimens (Table 4) fit well with those obtained for populations of other countries, such as those obtained from Tixier <i>et al.</i> (2008). Values of measurements of La Réunion specimens are generally only slightly smaller (few percents variations). The same remark can be addressed for the adult male specimens (Table 4). Comparisons with <i>N. californicus</i> measurements of a large number of female (Table 4) specimens of various origins in Beaulieu and Beard (2018) shows shorter dimensions of all characters of La Réunion specimens (all ranges of La Réunion specimens are in the lower parts of the ranges mentioned by these authors). This is interesting to notice that it is not the case for males (Table 4), measurements of male specimens from La Réunion covering ranges or being in the middle of ranges mentioned by Beaulieu and Beard (2018) in their redescription.
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 pages 120-121, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204361, http://zenodo.org/record/3879818
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