Neoseiulus Hughes
Creators: name: Döker, İsmail
name: Kazak, Cengiz
name: Karut, Kamil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2015
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Neoseiulus

description: Key to the Turkish species of Neoseiulus Hughes
*According to Abo-Shnaf & Moraes (2014), Neoseiulus sharonensis (Rivnay & Swirski) is senior synonym of N. knappi Zannou, Moraes, Ueckermann & Oliveira according to Abo-Shnaf & Moraes (2014).
1. Seta Z4 longer than seta Z5....................................................... N. ornatus (Athias-Henriot)
- Seta Z4 shorter than seta Z5............................................................................ 2
2. Spermatheca with atrium forked at juncture with major duct, or atrium appearing thick-walled, vacuolated............. 3
- Spermatheca with atrium neither forked at juncture with major duct nor appearing thick-walled, vacuolated............. 8
3. Genu II with eight setae................................................................................ 4
- Genu II with seven setae............................................................................... 5
4. Atrium connected to calyx with a long neck........................ N. neomarginatus Stathakis, Kapaxidi & Papadoulis
- Atrium connected to calyx with a very short neck.................................. N. sekeroglui Döker & Stathakis
5. Seta Z5 shorter than 40 µm................................................................ N. agrestis (Karg)
- Seta Z5 longer than 40 µm............................................................................. 6
6. Atrium directly connected to calyx without a neck; distance between pre-anal solenostomes 1/3 distance between setae JV2....................................................................................... N. barkeri Hughes
- Atrium connected to calyx with a neck; distance between pre-anal solenostomes more than half the distance between setae JV2.................................................................................................... 7
7. Dorsal shield reticulated; calyx longer, about 2/3 length of calyx plus neck plus atrium............. N. alpinus (Schweizer)
- Dorsal shield smooth with anterolateral striae; calyx shorter, about 1/2 length of calyx plus neck plus atrium.............................................................................................. N. marginatus (Wainstein)
8. Movable digit of chelicera smooth........................................................ N. zwoelferi (Dosse)
- Movable digit of chelicera with teeth..................................................................... 9
9. Movable digit of chelicera with more than one tooth........................................................ 10
- Movable digit of chelicera with only one tooth............................................................ 12
10. Movable digit of chelicera with two teeth................................................. N. umbraticus (Chant)
- Movable digit of chelicera with three teeth................................................................ 11
11. Both setae r1 and R3 longer than 40 µm................................ Neoseiulus sharonensis (Rivnay & Swirski) *
- Both setae r1 and R3 shorter than 40 µm............................................. N. californicus (McGregor)
12. Spermatheca with a short neck between calyx and atrium................................... N. bicaudus (Wainstein)
- Spermatheca without a neck between calyx and atrium..................................................... 13
13. Macroseta of basitarsus IV longer than the distance between its base and the dorsal slit organ.... N. cucumeris (Oudemans)
- Macroseta of basitarsus IV shorter than the distance between its base and the dorsal slit organ....................... 14
14. Seta S2 subequal to Z4; seta S2 reaches the insertion of S4; calyx of spermatheca short, L:W 1:1..................................................................................................... N. insularis (Athias-Henriot)
- Seta S2 shorter than Z4; seta S2 not reaches the insertion of S4; calyx of spermatheca longer, L:W> 3:1.................................................................................................... N. astutus (Beglyarov)
description: Published as part of Döker, İsmail, Kazak, Cengiz & Karut, Kamil, 2015, A new species and two new records of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Turkey, pp. 439-445 in Zootaxa 3918 (3) on page 444, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3918.3.8, http://zenodo.org/record/232592