Ameroseius aegypticus

Ameroseius aegypticus El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979

Ameroseius aegypticus El-Badry, Nasr & Hafez, 1979: 2.

Ameroseius aegypticus . - Zaher 1986: 401; Narita et al. 2015: 395.

Type depository.

Not stated.

Type locality and habitat.

Egypt, Giza Governorate, Dokki, Ministry of Agriculture, decayed debris under wild-sage, Lantana camara ( Verbenaceae).

Remarks.

A species closely related with Ameroseius lidiae Bregetova, 1977, if not identical. I have seen a series of photos displaying a specimen of this species from Egypt (kindly sent by R. Abo-Shnaf). Some differential characters for separating Ameroseius aegypticus and A. lidiae could be based on dorsal chaetotaxy (in A. aegypticus, dorsal setae slightly longer and more slender when compared with A. lidiae, the distance between left and right base in setal pairs j5, J2 and J4 relatively shorter; setae Z2 only slightly longer than Z1 and Z3).