Fig. 2

Life cycle, reproduction, and genetic system of the predatory mite Neoseiulus cucumeris. Both males and females go through one 6-legged larval stage and two 8-legged nymphal stages (first or protonymph and second or deutonymph) without obvious differences in morphology. Adult males are smaller than females and have more a pointed posterior end. Mating is required for oviposition for female mites, which produce fertilized eggs (2n). In the early embryo, the paternal genome is eliminated in eggs destined to be males in this parahaploid species