Typhlodromips culmulus
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
Typhlodromips
Typhlodromips culmulus

description: <i>Typhlodromips culmulus</i> (van der Merwe) <i>Amblyseius</i> (<i>Amblyseius</i>) <i>culmulus</i> van der Merwe 1968: 132; Ueckermann &amp; Loots 1988: 157. <i>Typhlodromips culmulus</i>, Moraes <i>et al.</i> 1986: 139; 2004a: 210; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2005c: 327; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2007: 61. This species belongs to the <i>culmulus</i> species group as the spermatheca has a calyx shallow dish-shaped. This species group contains only 10 species (Chant and McMurtry 2005c). <i>Typhlodromips culmulus</i> is mentioned from western and southern Africa (Demite <i>et al.</i> 2019). It was found recently in Mauritius (Kreiter <i>et al.</i> 2018a). Species of this quite large genus are supposed to all belong to the type III (McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry <i>et al.</i> 2013), i.e. a polyphagous generalist predator. However, the biology of <i>T. culmulus</i> remains totally unknown. This is the first mention of this species from La Réunion Island. <b>Specimens examined</b>: 105 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 18 &amp;male;&amp;male; + 6 im., 10 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 3 &amp;male;&amp;male; measured. Petite Île – Piton Bloc, Yébo Luguy farm (aasl 973 m, Long 55°34’64” E, Lat 21°18’64” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>I. obscura</i>, 28/4/2016; 6 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 1 im. on <i>P. lanceolata</i>, 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; on <i>R. raphanistrum</i>, 1 &amp;female; on <i>I. obscura,</i> 18/10/2016; Le Tampon – Grand Tampon, Janick Bénard farm (aasl 861 m, Long 55°32’90” E, Lat 21°12’80” S), 1 &amp;female; on <i>Begonia cucullata</i>, 7/1/2016; 4 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 2 &amp;male;&amp;male; + 1 im. on <i>R. raphanistrum,</i> 1 &amp;female; on <i>B. pilosa</i>, 24/5/2016; 8 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 1 im. on <i>R. raphanistrum,</i> 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; on <i>B. pilosa</i>, 20/9/2016; Saint-Pierre – Bassin Martin, Armefhor Station (aasl 450 m, Long 55°31’9” E, Lat 21°18’14” S), 18 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 2 &amp;male;&amp;male; + 1 im. on various weeds and 62 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 13 &amp;male;&amp;male; + 2 im. on <i>C. rotundus</i>, 3/8/2017; 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>A. viridis</i>, 20/6/2017. <b>Remarks</b>: measurements of morphological characters of <i>T. culmulus</i> female and male specimens from La Réunion (Table 14) are very close from measurements for specimens from neighbouring countries, especially for specimens from Kenya and Mauritius and except for specimens from South Africa which are larger in van der Merwe (1968) but very close for the measurements of type material provided by Moraes <i>et al.</i> (2007).
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 138, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204361, http://zenodo.org/record/3879818
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