Some new species records of the predatory mite family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from The Netherlands

Abstract

Thirteen species of phytoseiid mites collected from the Netherlands are re-described and illustrated. Among them 9 are new species records for the Dutch fauna and Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) smithi (Schuster, 1957) is a new record for Europe. Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) neosmithi nom. nov. Faraji is proposed as a replacement name for Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) smithi Denmark & Evans, 2011. Also, Kampimodromus coryli Meshkov, 1999 is considered as a junior synonym of Kampimodromus langei (Wainstein & Arutunjan, 1973).

Keywords

• Biodiversity
• Biological control
• Dutch fauna
• Gamasida
• Taxonomy