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

• Published in: Acarologia
• Main Authors: Kreiter, Serge, Douin, Martial, Tixier, Marie
• Other Authors: Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Centre de Biologie pour la Gestion des Populations (UMR CBGP), Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (Cirad)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD France-Sud )-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Institut Agro - Montpellier SupAgro, Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2021
• Subjects: Animalia; Arthropoda; Acari; Aacriformes; survey; collection; taxonomy; systematics; predatory mites; [SDV.BA.ZI]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Invertebrate Zoology; [SDV.BID.SPT]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity/Systematics; Phylogenetics and taxonomy; Four Islands; North Atlantic; Mite
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03187655; https://hal.science/hal-03187655/document; https://hal.science/hal-03187655/file/Acarologia-2021-61-217-240.pdf; https://doi.org/10.24349/acarologia/20214428

International audience 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.