Neoseiulus bicaudus ( Wainstein, 1962 )

Liao, Jhih-Rong, Ho, Chyi-Chen & Ko, Chiun-Cheng, 2021, Predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) intercepted from samples imported to Taiwan, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4927 (3), pp. 301-330 : 306

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) .