A new species of Neoparaphytoseius (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) from Brazil, with a review of the genus Author Silva, Lídia R. A. 0000-0002-9876-9752 lidiabio 07 @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 9876 - 9752 lidiabio07@hotmail.com Author Silva, Edmilson S. 0000-0002-5931-2477 silva _ es @ yahoo. com. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5931 - 2477 silva_es@yahoo.com.br Author Marticorena, Jorge L. M. 0000-0001-5811-6012 National University of Cañete, Professional School of Agronomy, Lima, Peru. & jmunoz @ undc. edu. pe; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5811 - 6012 jmunoz@undc.edu.pe Author De Moraes, Gilberto J. 0000-0002-5587-1781 CNPQ researcher, Deptartment of Entomology e Acarology, ESALQ, Universidade de São Paulo, 13418 - 900 Piracicaba, São Paulo, Brazil. & moraesg @ usp. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5587 - 1781 moraesg@usp.br text Zootaxa 2021 2021-06-14 4985 2 235 244 journal article 5862 10.11646/zootaxa.4985.2.6 2e84bfe8-c9f3-4d4d-adfd-4bb107b740e8 1175-5326 4943490 CE4B48A5-E391-4FD6-A31E-E51136794E70

TABLE 1. Morphological comparison of Neoparaphytoseius species (females).

		N. sooretamus		N. charapa	N. caatinga
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Structures	Holotype 1 (n=1)	Bahia 2 (n=1)	São Paulo 3 (n=6)	Holotype 4 (n=1)	(n=5)
Dorsal shield length	292	332	322 (313–330)	331	340 (329–350)
Dorsal shield width	147	169	170 (165–175)	167	179 (171–186)
j 1	36	33	32 (30–34)	47	29 (24–34)
j 3	68	71	69 (63–75)	35	89 (82–96)
j 4	6	4	5 (4–6)	5	7 (5–8)
j 5	5	5	4 (3–5)	5	6 (5–7)
j 6	4	5	5 (4–5)	5	9 (7–10)
J 2	7	6	5 (4–6)	5	8 (6–10)
J 5	7	6	6 (5–7)	5	8 (6–9)
z 2	14	12	9 (7–10)	15	17 (14–19)
z 4	17	21	12 (9–15)	6	22 (19–24)
z 5	5	6	5 (4–5)	5	7 (6–7)
s 4	134	138	144 (130–158)	122	126 (120–132)
Z 1	9	7	6 (4–7)	8	8 (7–9)
Z 4	103	100	112	75	102 (96–108)
Z 5	125	–	135 (130–140)	98	87 (72–101)
S 2	16	15	16 (11–20)	15	13 (10–15)
S 5	16	12	13 (10–15)	20	9 (7–11)
r 3	34	35	34 (30–38)	36	47 (45–48)
R 1	16	14	12 (8–16)	13	11 (7–14)
ZV 1	–	18	25 (20–26)	106	26 (20–31)
ZV 2	–	13	15 (12–17)	80	15 (14–16)
ZV 3	–	11	9 (7–11)	190	10 (8–11)
JV 1	–	13	14 (12–15)	36	21 (20–22)
JV 2	–	13	13 (11–14)	47	20 (17–22)
JV 4	–	14	15 (12–17)	145	17 (15–18)
JV 5	84	83	89 (82–96)	104	76 (72–79)
Para-anal	–	15	17 (15–18)	–	13 (11–15)
Post-anal	–	20	18 (16–20)	–	16 (14–18)
Ventrianal shield length	101	117	114 (102–126)	105	113 (110–116)
Anal shield width (anus)	72	61	62 (56–68)	–	59 (56–62)
Ventrianal shield width (Zv 2)	–	75	73 (70–76)	80	67 (62–71)
Genital shield length	–	117	121 (114–128)	–	124 (115–132)
Width at level st 5	83	61	76 (72–80)	–	68 (65–71)
St IV	70	68	70 (62–78)	78	42 (40–43)
Structures	Holotype 1 (n=1)	Bahia 2 (n=1)	São Paulo 3 (n=6)	Holotype 4 (n=1)	(n=5)
Sti IV	93	91	91 (82–100)	37	38 (34–42)
Sge IV	59	59	64 (53–74)	17	43 (37–49)
Leg I	–	360	344 (334–353)	–	315 (300–330)
Leg II	–	293	297 (288–306)	–	265 (250–280)
Leg III	–	295	300 (290–310)	–	255 (245–265)
Leg IV	–	476	496 (461–530)	–	378 (366–390)
Palp	–	123	128 (123–133)	–	126 (122–130)
Calyx spermatheca	–	5	4 (3–5)	11	10 (7–12)
Fixed digit	–	30	30 (28–31)	31	29 (25–32)
Movable digit	–	33	34 (32–35)	28	31 (29–33)
st 1 –st 1	–	63	67 (63–70)	–	63 (60–65)
st 2 –st 2	–	74	78 (75–80)	68	69 (62–75)
st 3 –st 3	–	85	86 (81–90)	78	84(80–88)
Fixed digit	–	30	30 (28–31)	31	29 (25–32)
st 5 –st 5	–	79	75 (72–77)	74	66 (62–70)
st 1 –st 3	–	70	68 (65–70)	62	63 (60–66)