A new species of Neoseiulus Hughes, with records of seven species of predatory mites associated with date palm in Saudi Arabia (Acari: Phytoseiidae) Author Negm, Mohamed W. Author Alatawi, Fahad J. Author Aldryhim, Yousif N. text Zootaxa 2012 3356 57 64 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.281593 5804ea58-89e0-40b1-a668-bc292f38f325 1175-5326 281593 Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein) Amblyseius bicaudus Wainstein, 1962 : 146 . Neoseiulus bicaudus .— Chant & McMurtry, 2003 : 23 ; 2007: 25; Moraes et al ., 2004 : 108 ; Palevsky et al ., 2009 : 1729 ; Asali Fayaz et al ., 2011 : 375 . Specimens examined. One female, Ouyaina, Riyadh, 17 March 2010 , 24°53' N , 46°21' E , alt. 740 m , on Garden nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus L. ( Tropaeolaceae ) in a date palm orchard. Remarks. The type specimens of this species were collected from grass at Kargalink, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan . The Saudi specimen is very similar to the redescription done by Palevsky et al . (2009) who illustrated genu IV (Fig. 6E) with six setae. However, genu IV has seven setae in the Saudi specimen. This is the first record of this species in Saudi Arabia . This species occurs in Armenia , Azerbaijan , Caucasus, France , Georgia , Greece , Hungary , Israel , Italy , Moldova , Norway , Russia , Serbia , Spain , Switzerland , Tajikistan , Turkey , Ukraine , USA ( Moraes et al ., 2004 ) and Iran ( Asali Fayaz et al ., 2011 ).