New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Madeira Island

Serge Kreiter (1, 2) , Martial Douin (1, 2) , Marie Stephane Tixier (1, 2)

1 Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
2 UMR CBGP - Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations

Madeira is the largest of the four islands constituting Madeira Archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean. It is located at 400 km from the Northern Canary Islands, at 500 km from Morocco and between 900 and 1000 km from South Portugal and Spain. So far, nineteen species of the mite family Phytoseiidae had been reported from this island. We report in this paper the results of a survey conducted in May 2019 in Madeira Island, in which 15 species have been found, six being new for the Island fauna.

Mots clés: Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; Aacriformes; survey; collection; taxonomy; systematics; predatory mites

Domaines: Zoologie des invertébrés; Systématique, phylogénie et taxonomie

Serge Kreiter, Martial Douin, Marie Stephane Tixier. New records of phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Madeira Island. Acarologia, 2021, 61 (2), pp.217-240. ⟨10.24349/acarologia/20214428⟩. ⟨hal-03187655⟩