| abstract | This paper deals with a new species and two new records of the genus Typhlodromus from East China. The type specimens are kept in the Department of Enviroment and Resources Biology, Fudan University.
Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) luensis sp.nv. (figs. 1-7)
This species is similar to T. microbullatus V. D. Merwe, but differs from the latter in a pair of preanal pores between the fourth preanal setae and the distance between the preanal pores equal to the distance between the base of the third preanal setae, in the movable digit of chelicera with one tooth and in all dorsal setae longer.
Holotype ♀, Aug. 19, 1988, Mt. Taishan (36°12ʼ N, 117°04ʼ E) Shandong Province, on Leguminosae, by Lao Jun and Lu Zhongjian; allotype ♂, paratype 38♀♀, data same as for holotype.
Typhlodromus (Paraseiulus) loricatus (Wainstein, 1978)
New record from China.
10♀♀, Jul. 9, 1988, Mt. Taishan (36°12ʼ N, 117°04ʼ E) Shandong Province, on Cupressus sp. by Lao Jun and Lu Zhongjian.
Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) higoensis Ehara 1985
New record from China.
16♀♀, Jun. 5, 1988, Mt. Sheshan (31°30ʼ N, 121°15ʼ E) Shanghai, on Bamboo, Symplocos paniculata (Thunb.), Polygonum multiforum Thunb., Aphananthe aspera (Thunb.), by Lao Jun. |