Classification:
Subfamily: Typhlodrominae
Tribe: Metaseiulini
Genus (Subgenus): Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus)
Species: Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) smithi
Holotype:
Metaseiulus (Metaseiulus) smithi (Schuster,
1957): 203; Victor, San Joaquin, California, USA, on grape.
Other Names:
Typhlodromus smithi (original designation) —
Schuster (1957)
Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) smithi —
Chant (1959b)
Amblydromus smithi —
Muma (1961a)
Chanteius (Evanseius) smithi —
Wainstein (1962b)
Typhloseiopsis smithi —
Schuster & Pritchard (1963)
Typhlodromus (Typhloseiopsis) smithi —
Van der Merwe (1968)
Distribution:
CANADA —
BRITISH COLUMBIA:
Downing & Moilliet (1971);
NETHERLANDS:
Faraji & Hoekstra (2021);
USA —
CALIFORNIA:
Denmark & Evans (2011);
Schuster (1957);
Schuster (1966a);
Schuster & Pritchard (1963);
UTAH:
Denmark & Evans (2011);
Jorgensen & Mongkolprasith (1979);
Hosts / Substrates (Holotype):
Vitaceae: Grape — Schuster (1957);
Redescription:
Chant (1959b);
Chant (1965a);
Chant & McMurtry (2007);
Chant & Yoshida-Shaul (1984a);
Denmark & Evans (2011);
Faraji & Hoekstra (2021);
Hirschmann (1962);
Jorgensen & Mongkolprasith (1979);
Mahr (1979);
Schuster (1966a);
Schuster & Pritchard (1963);
Schuster & Smith (1960);
Tsolakis & Ragusa (2010);
Wainstein (1962b);
Yoshida-Shaul & Chant (1983);
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