Abstract
The Italian phytoseiid fauna consists of 91 valid species. Eighteen of them were described as new species from materials collected in various Italian localities. In the present paper we report nine new records from the Italian fauna and describe the new species, Neoseiulus mediterraneus belonging to the subfamily Amblyseiinae. Complementary descriptions of two rare species, namely: Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) singularis and Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) knisleyi, were also added.
Highlights
The family Phytoseiidae (Acari, Parasitiformes) being predatory, plays an important regulation role both in agricultural and natural ecosystems (McMurtry et al 2013, 2015; Calvo et al 2015; Lorenzon et al 2018), and includes about 2,521 valid species (Demite et al 2020)
It is commonly accepted that periodic surveys of phytoseiid mites on cultivated and spontaneous plants, are important to discover some rare species that could become future biocontrol agents of phytophagous mites on agricultural crops
Afterwards, after a block of about 50 years, the studies on phytoseiid mites were resumed in a constant way starting from the 70s up to today (Ivancich-Gambaro 1975; Ragusa and Swirski 1976, 1978, 1982; Ragusa 1979, 1981; Ragusa and Paoletti 1985; How to cite this article Tsolakis H. and Ragusa S. (2020), New records of phytoseiid mites from Italy, with description of a new species and a redescription of other two (Parasitiformes, Phytoseiidae)
Summary
The family Phytoseiidae (Acari, Parasitiformes) being predatory, plays an important regulation role both in agricultural and natural ecosystems (McMurtry et al 2013, 2015; Calvo et al 2015; Lorenzon et al 2018), and includes about 2,521 valid species (Demite et al 2020). Chant and Yoshida-Shaul (1982) described the latter species from specimens collected in Algeria, distinguishing it from N. umbraticus for some discrete characters: a different chaetotactic formula of genu II, presence/absence of pilus dentilis, different lengths of peritreme and number of macrosetae on leg IV (see Table 1).
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