Abstract
The Comoros Archipelago is constituted of four islands. These islands are located in the North Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean, one of the world’s hotspots of biodiversity. Despite this status of hotspot, only one species of Phytoseiidae was known from this Archipelago, from Mayotte: Phytoseius mayottae. No species were recorded from the three other islands. We report in this paper the results of a preliminary survey in Great Comoro or “Grande Comore” Island also called Ngazidja in the Comorian language (= Shikomori) with five species recorded.
Highlights
Several species in the family Phytoseiidae are important natural enemies controlling phytophagous mite and small insects in natural areas and crops all around the world (McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry et al 2013).This family is widespread all over the world and consists of 2,479 valid species dispatched in three sub-families and 94 genera (Demite et al 2017)
The characterization of the phytoseiid mite diversity in these areas is contributing to this general topic of conservation
We report in this paper result of a preliminary survey in Grande Comore Island (Ngazidja)
Summary
Several species in the family Phytoseiidae are important natural enemies controlling phytophagous mite and small insects in natural areas and crops all around the world (McMurtry and Croft 1997; McMurtry et al 2013). This family is widespread all over the world and consists of 2,479 valid species dispatched in three sub-families and 94 genera (Demite et al 2017). The hotspot of biodiversity concept was defined by Myers (1988) in order to identify the most immediately important areas for conservation of biodiversity. The characterization of the phytoseiid mite diversity in these areas is contributing to this general topic of conservation
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