Thinoseius Halbert 1920

• Main Authors: Mašán, Peter, Halliday, Bruce
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Mesostigmata; Eviphididae; Thinoseius; Halliday; Iceland; Mite
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5312332; https://zenodo.org/record/5312332

Key to European species of the genus Thinoseius (females) 1. Sternal setae st1 and associated pores inserted on small sternal plate connected with endopodals I; dorsal shield with 14 pairs of short, stout setae including j1; length of dorsal shield 400 µm [British Isles].............................................. ............................................................................................................................... Thinoseius acuminatus Evans 1962 - Sternal setae st1 and associated pores inserted on unsclerotised soft integument; dorsal shield never with both 14 pairs of setae and j1 on the shield (11–15 pairs of setae on dorsal shield)................................................................... 2 2. Dorsal setae J 2 in normal position posterolateral to J1; dorsal shield with 15 pairs of setae; length of dorsal shield 750–830 µm [Iceland, Scandinavia, British Isles, Germany, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Latvia, Russia, North America]........ ............................................................................................................................ Thinoseius spinosus (Willmann 1939) - Dorsal setae J2 with unusual position lateral to J1; dorsal shield with 11–14 pairs of setae........................................ 3 3. Dorsal shield with 14 pairs of setae, including setae Z1 and Z4; epistome with five points [Croatia, Bulgaria]........... ................................................................................................................................. Thinoseius kargi Hirschmann 1966 - Dorsal shield with 11–13 pairs of setae, setae Z1 and Z4 outside the shield; epistome with more than five points; length of dorsal shield 760–850 µm [Iceland, British Isles, Germany, Ukraine, Bulgaria]............................................ ................................................................................................................................. Thinoseius fucicola (Halbert 1920) : Published as part of Mašán, Peter & Halliday, Bruce, 2010, Review of the European genera of Eviphididae (Acari: Mesostigmata) and the species occurring in Slovakia 2585, pp. 1-122 in Zootaxa 2585 on page 83 : {"references": ["Evans, G. O. (1962) A new mite of the genus Thinoseius Halbert (Mesostigmata: Eviphididae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 13), 4, 553 - 556.", "Willmann, C. (1939) Terrestrische Acari der Nord- und Ostseekuste. Abhandlungen hrsg. Vom Naturwissenschaftlichen Verein zu Bremen, 31, 521 - 550.", "Halbert, J. N. (1920) The Acarina of the seashore. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 35, (B 7), 106 - 152, Pls XXI - XXII."]}