Classification:

Subfamily: Typhlodrominae

Tribe: Metaseiulini

Genus (Subgenus): Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus)

Species: Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) nelsoni

 
Holotype:

Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) nelsoni (Chant, 1959b): 56; Camp Nelson, Tulare, California, USA, on cedar.

 
Other Names:
Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) nelsoni (original designation) — Chant (1959b)
Metaseiulus nelsoni  — Muma (1961a)
Chanteius (Eratodromus) nelsoni — Wainstein (1962b)
Typhlodromus nelsoni — Hirschmann (1962)
 
Distribution:
USA — ARIZONA: Tuttle & Muma (1973); CALIFORNIA: Chant (1959b); UTAH: Chant & Yoshida-Shaul (1984c);
 
Hosts / Substrates (Holotype):
Plant family unidentified: Cedar — Chant (1959b);
 
Catalog: Moraes et al. (1986); Moraes et al. (2004a); Prasad (2012); Schuster & Pritchard (1963);
Redescription: Chant & McMurtry (2007); Chant & Yoshida-Shaul (1984c); Denmark & Evans (2011); Hirschmann (1962); Tuttle & Muma (1973);
 

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