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Increasing Knowledge of the Mite Fauna of the United Arab Emirates: New Records and a Checklist M.W Increasing knowledge of the mite fauna of the United Arab Emirates: new records and a checklist M.W. Negm To cite this version: M.W. Negm. Increasing knowledge of the mite fauna of the United Arab Emirates: new records and a checklist. Acarologia, Acarologia, 2014, 54 (1), pp.113-120. 10.1051/acarologia/20142118. hal-01565252 HAL Id: hal-01565252 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01565252 Submitted on 19 Jul 2017 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution - NonCommercial - NoDerivatives| 4.0 International License ACAROLOGIA A quarterly journal of acarology, since 1959 Publishing on all aspects of the Acari All information: http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/ [email protected] Acarologia is proudly non-profit, with no page charges and free open access Please help us maintain this system by encouraging your institutes to subscribe to the print version of the journal and by sending us your high quality research on the Acari. Subscriptions: Year 2017 (Volume 57): 380 € http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/subscribe.php Previous volumes (2010-2015): 250 € / year (4 issues) Acarologia, CBGP, CS 30016, 34988 MONTFERRIER-sur-LEZ Cedex, France The digitalization of Acarologia papers prior to 2000 was supported by Agropolis Fondation under the reference ID 1500-024 through the « Investissements d’avenir » programme (Labex Agro: ANR-10-LABX-0001-01) Acarologia is under free license and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons-BY-NC-ND which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Acarologia 54(1): 113–120 (2014) DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20142118 INCREASING KNOWLEDGE OF THE MITE FAUNA OF THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: NEW RECORDS AND A CHECKLIST Mohamed W. NEGM (Received 17 September 2013; accepted 30 October 2013; published online 28 March 2014) Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Assiut University, Assiut 71526, Egypt. [email protected] ABSTRACT — Mite fauna of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is poorly studied. Based on published works, only 26 species (representing three orders, 18 families and 24 genera) were previously reported from coleopteran insects, plants, leaf litter and soil. This paper reports 11 new records of mites from the emirate of Dubai. A checklist of the taxa reported from the UAE to date is presented. KEYWORDS — Acari; mites; new records; United Arab Emirates; checklist INTRODUCTION MATERIALS AND METHODS Samplings were made in January, 2013, from the Faunistic studies on mites of the United Arab Emi- emirate of Dubai. Mites were sampled by using spe- ® rates (UAE) are limited. Twenty six species (15 cialized hand-held aspirators (BioQuip , CA, USA) known species, five new to science described from after modifying the collecting chamber by adding a the UAE and six unidentified species) have been re- small piece of light cloth. Mite specimens were pre- ported in previous publications (Vine and Al Abed, served in plastic vials containing ethyl alcohol (70 1996; Gassouma, 2005; Environment Agency Abu %) and then transferred to the Department of Plant Dhabi, 2008; Ueckermann, 2008; Den Heyer, 2009; Protection, Assiut University, Egypt for examina- Mahunka, 2009; Al-Deeb and Enan, 2010; Al-Deeb tion. Mites were cleared in lactophenol, mounted et al., 2011, 2012; Kontschán, 2011). These mites be- in Hoyer’s medium and studied under a research ® long to three orders, 18 families and 24 genera (Ta- microscope (BH-2, Olympus , Japan). ble 1). The main classification works used for the iden- tification of mite taxa were as follows: Anystidae To my knowledge, there is no taxonomic infor- (Otto, 1999), Blattisociidae (Evans and Hyatt, 1960; mation source that contains the mite fauna of the Christian and Karg, 2006), Caligonellidae (Swift, UAE. To establish a baseline and enhance knowl- 1996), Cheyletidae (Ehara, 1962; Fain et al., 2002), edge for further work, this paper presents a check- Eupodidae (Olivier and Theron, 1997), Phytoseiidae list of mites reported from UAE so far and new mite (Chant and McMurtry, 2007), Tetranychidae (Jepp- records. son et al., 1975) and Tydeidae (André, 1980, 2005; http://www1.montpellier.inra.fr/CBGP/acarologia/ 113 ISSN 0044-586-X (print). ISSN 2107-7207 (electronic) Negm M.W. TABLE 1: Checklist of mites reported from United Arab Emirates so far. * New records Plant or insect Order Family Species Reference host/habitat Cheiroseius nepalensis Cynodon dactylon L. Mesostigmata Blattisociidae Present study (Evans and Hyatt, 1960)* (Poaceae) Lasioseius youcefi Athias‐ C. dactylon Present study Henriot, 1959* Hypoaspis rhinocerotis Laelapidae O. a. arabicus Al‐Deeb et al. 2012 Oudemans, 1925 Cydnoseius negevi (Swirski Phytoseiidae C. dactylon Present study and Amitai, 1961)* Neoseiulus makuwa (Ehara, Sesuvium sp. (Aizoaceae) Present study 1972)* Proprioseiopsis asetus C. dactylon Present study (Chant, 1959)* Leonardiella harteni Trachyuropodidae Leaf litter Kontschán 2011 Kontschán, 2011 Rhyncophorus ferrugineus Uropodidae Curculanoetus sp. (Olivier, 1790) Al‐Deeb et al. 2011 (Curculionidae) Uroobovela sp. R. ferrugineus Al‐Deeb et al. 2011 Uropoda orbicularis R. ferrugineus Al‐Deeb et al. 2011 (Müller, 1776) Oryctes agamemnon Sarcoptiformes Acaridae Sancassania sp. arabicus Fairmaire, 1896 Al‐Deeb et al. 2012 (Scarabaeidae) O. agamemnon Sancassania sp. Al‐Deeb & Enan 2010 (Burmeister, 1847) Epilohmannia cylindrica Epilohmanniidae Leaf litter Mahunka 2009 cylindrica (Berlese, 1904) Pilogalumna arabica Galumnidae Bayoumi and Al‐Khalifa, Leaf litter Mahunka 2009 1986 Haplozetes vindobonensis Haplozetidae Leaf litter Mahunka 2009 (Willmann, 1935) Protoribates capucinus Leaf litter Mahunka 2009 Berlese, 1908 Zygoribatula mabar Oribatulidae Leaf litter Mahunka 2009 Mahunka, 2000 Leaf litter; humid soil; Z. sharjah Mahunka, 2009 Mahunka 2009 in a pitfall trap Scheloribates Scheloribatidae sacculipunctatus Leaf litter Mahunka 2009 Mahunka, 2009 Ethiovertex vanharteni Scutoverticidae In a pitfall trap Mahunka 2009 Mahunka, 2009 Tectocepheus velatus Tectocepheidae Humid soil Mahunka 2009 (Michael, 1880) Hypozetes imitator Balogh, Tegoribatidae In a pitfall trap Mahunka 2009 1959 114 Acarologia 54(1): 113–120 (2014) TABLE 1: Continued. Plant or insect Order Family Species Reference host/habitat Convolvulus arvensis L. Trombidiformes Anystidae Paratarsotomus sp.* Present study (Convolvulaceae) Caligonellidae Molothrognathus sp.* C. dactylon Present study Neognathus harteni Leaf litter Ueckermann 2008 Ueckermann, 2008 Hemicheyletia bakeri Cheyletidae C. arvensis Present study (Ehara, 1962)* Coleoscirus simplex Cunaxidae Leaf litter Den Heyer 2009 (Ewing, 1917) Cunaxa capreolus (Berlese, Leaf litter/in a light trap Den Heyer 2009 1890) Eupodidae Eupodes sp.* C. arvensis Present study Tenuipalpidae Raoiella indica Hirst P. dactylifera Gassouma 2005 Tenuipalpus eriophyoides P. dactylifera Gassouma 2005 Baker, 1948 Eutetranychus orientalis Chenopodium murale L. Tetranychidae Present study (Klein, 1936)* (Amaranthaceae) Oligonychus afrasiaticus Phoenix dactylifera L. Gassouma 2005 (McGregor, 1939) (Arecaceae) Tetranychus urticae Koch, Greenhouse vegetables Environment Agency 1836 (tomatoes and cucumbers) Abu Dhabi 2008 Environment Agency Trombiculidae Trombiculus sp. Not specified Abu Dhabi 2008 Trombidiidae Dinothrombium sp. Soil Vine & Al Abed 1996 Lantana camara L. Tydeidae Tydeus sp.* Present study (Verbenaceae) Ka´zmierski,1998). The voucher material, preserved Halliday et al., 1998) while recently they were as slide-mounted specimens, is deposited in the De- transferred to Blattisociidae (Lindquist et al., 2009). partment of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricul- Lindquist and Moraza (2010) presented a revised ture, Assiut University, Egypt. family diagnosis with a key to world genera. In this paper, the new concept of Lindquist et al. (2009) for blattisociid mites was followed. This is the first re- RESULTS port of this family from the UAE. New Records Order Mesostigmata Cheiroseius nepalensis (Evans and Hyatt, 1960) Family Blattisociidae Garman, 1948 Material examined — Four females, Dubai, 12 Jan. For a long time, acarologists agreed that Cheiro- 2013, 25°07’ N, 55°06’ E, alt. 13 m, on Bermuda seius Berlese, 1916 and Lasioseius Berlese, 1916 be- grass, Cynodon dactylon L. (Poaceae) close to soil sur- long to family Ascidae (Lindquist and Evans, 1965; face. 115 Negm M.W. Remarks — Mites of the genus Cheiroseius are Corpuz-Raros), the latter described from Philip- known to feed on collembolans (Collembola) (Hal- pines, on Shorea guiso (Blanco) Blume (Diptro- liday et al., 1998). The present specimens of C. carpaceae). This is the first report of this species nepalensis (Evans and Hyatt, 1960) were found in from the UAE. association with high populations of collembolans Distribution — Cydnoseius negevi has been essen- and thrips. This is the first report of this species tially reported from the Mediterranean
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