Predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) intercepted from samples imported to Taiwan, with description of a new species
Author
Liao, Jhih-Rong
Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan
Author
Ho, Chyi-Chen
Taiwan Acari Research Laboratory, Taichung City, Taiwan
Author
Ko, Chiun-Cheng
Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan & Kocc 2501 @ ntu. edu. tw; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8815 - 3981
occ2501@ntu.edu.tw
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-15
4927
3
301
330
journal article
8089
10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1
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1175-5326
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Neoseiulus bicaudus
(
Wainstein, 1962
)
Amblyseius bicaudus
Wainstein, 1962: 146
.
Material examined.
Japan
: one female (
HAL
095F295) from
Vitis vinifera
(Vitaceae)
,
3 Aug 2006
; one female (
HAL
095F308) from
V
.
vinifera
(Vitaceae)
,
8 Sept 2006
.
Previous records.
Africa:
Egypt
(
Abo-Shnaf & Moraes 2014
),
Tunisia
(
Sahraoui
et al
. 2012
). Asia:
Armenia
(
Arutunjan 1969
), Azerbaijan (
Abbasova 1972
),
China
(
Zhang
et al
. 2017
),
Iran
(
Asali Fayaz
et al
. 2011
),
Israel
(
Swirski & Amitai 1985
),
Kazakhstan
(
Wainstein 1962
),
Saudi Arabia
(
Negm
et al
. 2012
),
Syria
(
Barbar 2014
),
Tajikistan
(
Wainstein 1962
),
Turkey
(
Çobanoðlu 1991
). Europe:
France
(
Athias-Henriot 1966
), Georgia (
Wainstein & Vartapetov 1973
),
Greece
(
Papadoulis & Emmanouel 1990
),
Hungary
(
Bozai 1980
),
Italy
(
Ragusa & Paoletti 1985
),
Latvia
(
Salmane 1996
),
Moldova
(
Kolodochka 1980
),
Norway
(
Denmark
& Edland 2002
),
Portugal
(
Espinha
et al
. 1998
),
Russia
(
Wainstein 1962
),
Serbia
(
Stojnić
et al
. 2002
),
Slovakia
(
Fend’a 2010
),
Spain
(
Iraola
et al
. 1997
),
Switzerland
(
Airoldi
et al
. 1989
),
Ukraine
(
Livshitz & Kuznetsov 1972
). North America:
Mexico
(
Denmark
& Evans 2011
),
USA
(
Congdon 2002
). South America:
Chile
(
Trincado
et al
. 2018
).
Remarks.
The species is distributed worldwide, except in Oceania. It is a native predator of spider mites and thrips in
Xinjiang Uygur
Autonomous Region of
China
and is more adapted than nonnative species to hot and dry climates (
Zhang
et al
. 2017
). It was recently showed to be promising predator of the whitefly
Bemisia tabaci
(
Han
et al.
2020
)
.