Paraseiulus
Creators: name: Faraji, Farid
name: Jalaeian, Mahdi
name: Mcmurtry, James A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Paraseiulus

description: Key to the world species* of Paraseiulus based on adult females
1 Setae Z3 present ...................................................................................................................... P. talbii (Athias-Henriot)
- Setae Z3 absent ............................................................................................................................................................ 2
2 Dorsal shield with prominent pores in addition to some distinct small pores .............................................................. 3
- Dorsal shield without prominent pores, with or without distinct small pores ............................................................. 5
3 Dorsal shield with three pairs of large pores; calyx of spermatheca bell-shaped. P. triporus (Chant & Yoshida-Shaul)
- Dorsal shield with two pairs of large pores; calyx of spermatheca narrow, funnel-shaped and bulged near atrium.... 4
4 Setae ST 3 set on platelets; posterior margin of sternal shield strongly concave .............. P. deogyuensis (Ryu & Ehara)
- Setae ST 3 set on soft integument; posterior margin of sternal shield slightly concave .............. P. insignis Kolodochka
5 Calyx of spermatheca saccular and without neck ..................................................................... P. amacroporus n. sp.
- Calyx of spermatheca elongate and narrow or calyx with a long neck ........................................................................ 6
6 Dorsal shield elongate, width half the length ...................................................................... P. minutus (Athias-Henriot)
- Dorsal shield more stout, width over half the length ................................................................................................... 7
7 Length of setae Z4 more than half the distance between setae Z4 and Z5 ...................................................................... 8
- Length of setae Z4 half, or less than half, the distance between setae Z4 and Z5 .......................................................... 9
8 All setae on dorsal shield except j1 and J5, lightly barbed; setae j4 and j5 easily reach insertions of, respectively, setae j5 and z5 ............................................................................................................ P. erevanicus (Wainstein & Arutunjan)
- Only setae Z4, Z5 and J5 barbed; setae j4 and j5 do not reach insertions of, respectively, setae j5 and z5 ......................... ................................................................................................................................................... P. porosus Kolodochka
9 Setae ST 3 set on platelets; ventrianal shield with a ratio of length to width of about 2.6 (at waist) or 1.6 (at widest level) .................................................................................................................................... P. intermixtus Kolodochka
- Setae ST 3 set on soft integument; ventrianal shield with a ratio of length to width of about 4.6 (at waist) or 2.3 (at widest level) ...................................................................................................................... P. inobservatus Kolodochka
description: Published as part of Faraji, Farid, Jalaeian, Mahdi & Mcmurtry, James A., 2008, A new species of Paraseiulus Muma from Iran with a key to the known species (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae), pp. 65-68 in Zootaxa 1770 on page 67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.182132