Scapulaseius reptans
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
Scapulaseius
Scapulaseius reptans

description: <i>Scapulaseius reptans</i> (Blommers) <i>Amblyseius</i> (<i>Amblyseius</i>) <i>reptans</i> Blommers 1974: 145. <i>Typhlodromips reptans</i>, Moraes <i>et al.</i> 1986: 146; Moraes <i>et al.</i> 2004a: 222. <i>Scapulaseius reptans</i>, Chant &amp; McMurtry 2005c: 335; Chant &amp; McMurtry 2007: 68. This species belongs to the <i>ficilocus</i> species group of the genus <i>Scapulaseius</i> as the setae <i>R1</i> are inserted on lateral integument of adult female (Chant and McMurtry 2005c). This species group contains 40 species with setae <i>R1</i> inserted on the lateral integument of the adult female. This species is mentioned only from the Indian Ocean area, Madagascar (Blommers 1974), La Réunion (Quilici <i>et al.</i> 2000) and recently Mauritius (Kreiter <i>et al.</i> 2018a). Species of this genus <i>Scapulaseius</i> are supposed to be of type III (McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry <i>et al.</i> 2013), i.e. polyphagous generalist predators. However, the biology of <i>S. reptans</i> remains unknown. <i>S. reptans</i> was already mentioned from La Réunion by Quilici <i>et al.</i> (2000). Exact indications of locations were provided in this paper but without any measurements of specimens collected. They are provided for specimens collected during this study and listed in table 15. <b>Specimens examined</b>: 2 &amp;female;&amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; in total, all measured. Ravine Langevin – Grand-Galet Waterfall (aasl 850 m, Long 55°21’33” E, Lat 21°17’47” S), 1 &amp;female; + 1 &amp;male; on <i>D. incanum</i>, 11/12/2016; Petite Île – Piton Bloc, Yébo Luguy farm (aasl 973 m, Long 55°34’64” E, Lat 21°18’64” S), 1 &amp;female; + 1 im. on <i>L. camara</i>, 9/1/2017. <b>Remarks</b>: measurements of the two female and the male specimens in the table 15 show a great overlap with measurements mentioned in Kreiter <i>et al.</i> (2018a) on specimens from Mauritius, except for setae <i>S2</i>, <i>S4</i> and <i>S5</i> which are longer in La Réunion specimens. Setae of specimens from La Réunion are generally longer, except for <i>j1</i> and the macroseta of genu I that are nearly the same as for specimens from Mauritius. However, sternogenital shield is longer in Mauritius specimens. Both specimens from La Réunion and Mauritius have globally greater dimensions than type specimens from Madagascar, especially setae. Ferragut and Baumann (2019) discussed a possible synonymy between <i>S. reptans</i> and <i>S. asiaticus</i> (Evans) recently. Our specimens of La Réunion Island markedly differ from specimens of <i>S. asiaticus</i> collected recently in Vietnam (Kreiter <i>et al.</i> in prep.) and we therefore disagree with this possible synonymy with arguments that will be developed in a future paper.
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 141, DOI: 10.24349/acarologia/20204361, http://zenodo.org/record/3879818
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