A new Amblyseius Berlese (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) species from Ecuador, with a key to the perditus subgroup of the largoensis species group

ABSTRACT

Amblyseius yumbus Ortega-Ojeda & Santos n. sp. is described based on specimens collected in a subtropical highland environment in northern Ecuador, on Musa paradisiaca (Musaceae) and Megaskepasma erythrochlamys (Acanthaceae). A key for the identification of the species of the perditus subgroup of the largoensis group, to which this new species belongs, is presented.

KEYWORDS:

• Taxonomy
• largoensis
• perditus
• mite diversity
• morphology

Acknowledgments

To CAPES for the scholarship provided to the first author for his Doctorate degree at ESALQ-USP. To UCE for the research license and support for the conduction of this research. To Alberto T. Ortega-Urrutia for the support in the identification of the host plants. To José Antonio Ortega-Vaca for his help in field samplings.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).