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

• Published in: Acarologia
• Main Authors: Kreiter, Serge, Douin, Martial, Tixier, Marie Stephane
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Acarologia 2021
• Subjects: Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; Acariformes; survey; collection; taxonomy; systematics; predatory mites; Four Islands; North Atlantic; Mite
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20214428; http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/article.php?id=4428

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 Phytoseiida...