Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948

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 : 305-306

Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948

Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948: 141 .

Neoseiulus barkeri .— Liao et al., 2020: 252.

Material examined. Thailand: one female ( HAL 095F297) from Asparagus officinalis (Asparagaceae) , 15 Aug 2006; one female ( HAL 095F298) from Ocimum sanctum (Lamiaceae) , 21 Aug 2006; one female ( HAL 101B144) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae) , 13 Feb 2012; one protonymph ( QAR 101H015) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae) , 30 Aug 2011; Thailand, one female ( QAR 101H022) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae) , 17 June 2013.

Netherlands: one female ( HAL 095F309) from Lactuca sativa var. capitata (Asteraceae) , 14 Sept 2006; Netherlands, one female ( QAR 101H038) from Thymes sp. ( Lamiaceae ), 5 Sept 2013.

Israel:one female ( HAL 095G063) from Kochia sp. ( Amaranthaceae ), 31 Oct 2006;three females ( HAL 095G064) from Limonium sp. ( Plumbaginaceae ), 31 Oct 2006.

Japan: one female ( HAL 100B075) from Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae) , 2 May 2011; one female ( QAR 101H013) from Perilla frutescens (Lamiaceae) , 23 Aug 2011; one female ( QAR 101H023) from Chrysanthemum sp. ( Asteraceae ), 21 Sept 2011; one female ( QAR 101H050) from P. frutescens (Lamiaceae) , 13 Sept 2013; one female ( QAR 101H036) from P. frutescens (Lamiaceae) , 3 Sept 2013.

New Zealand: one female ( QAR 101H001) from Malus pumila (Rosaceae) , 5 Apr 2011.

USA: one female ( QAR 101H014) from Anthriscus cerefolium (Apiaceae) , 27 Aug 2011

Peru: six females ( QAR 101H029) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae) , 21 July 2013;

Previous records. Africa: Algeria ( Athias-Henriot 1961), Benin ( Zannou et al. 2006), Burundi ( Zannou et al. 2006), Canary Islands ( Ferragut & Peña-Estévez 2003), Cape Verde ( Ueckermann 1992), Egypt ( Abo-Shnaf & Moraes 2014), Ghana ( Moraes et al. 1989a), Guinea ( Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983), Kenya ( Zannou et al. 2006), Malawi ( Zannou et al. 2005), Morocco ( Kreiter et al. 2004), Mozambique ( Zannou et al. 2006), Nigeria ( Moraes et al. 1989a), Senegal ( Kade et al. 2011), South Africa ( Ueckermann & Meyer 1988), Tunisia ( Kreiter et al. 2002), Yemen ( Ueckermann 1996). Asia: China ( Wu 1980), Cyprus ( Amitai 1992), Iran ( Rahmani et al. 2010), Israel ( Swirski & Amitai 1965), Japan ( Ehara 1972), Jordan ( Allawi 1991), Oman ( Hountondji et al. 2010), Saudi Arabia ( Al-Atawi 2011b), South Korea (Ryu 1997), Syria ( Barbar 2013), Thailand ( Oliveira et al. 2012), Turkey ( Swirski & Amitai 1982). Europe: England ( Hughes 1948), Finland ( Tuovinen 1993), France ( Kreiter et al. 2000), Georgia ( Wainstein & Vartapetov 1973), Germany ( Karg 1965), Greece ( Papaioannou-Souliotis 1981), Italy ( Athias-Henriot 1961), Latvia ( Petrova et al. 2000), the Netherlands ( van de Vrie 1963), Norway ( Denmark & Edland 2002), Portugal ( Ferreira & Carmona 1994), Russia ( Meshkov 1999), Spain ( Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983), Sweden ( Steeghs et al. 1993), Ukraine ( Wainstein & Shcherbak 1972). North America: USA ( Denmark & Evans 2011). Oceania: Australia ( Waite & Gerson 1994), Hawaii ( Denmark & Evans 2011). South America: Brazil ( Moraes et al. 1993), Chile ( Ragusa & Vargas 2002).

Remarks. Beaulieu & Beard (2018) provided a detailed redescription and illustration of this species. They also designated a neotype of the species. The species is distributed worldwide, including in Taiwan ( Demite et al. 2020; Liao et al. 2020). The species is considered a subtype III-e generalist predators that lives on soil/litter, and plants ( McMurtry et al. 2013). EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercial biological control agent for thrips and broad mite.