Neoseiulus cucumeris ( Oudemans, 1930 )

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 : 307

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4542266
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039687BC-FFA3-F529-FF25-689AFE5121B0
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Neoseiulus cucumeris ( Oudemans, 1930 )
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Treatment

Neoseiulus cucumeris ( Oudemans, 1930) View in CoL

Typhlodromus cucumeris Oudemans, 1930: 69 .

Neoseiulus cucumeris View in CoL .— Beard, 2001: 103.

Material examined. Australia: one female ( HAL 098B609) from Hydrangea macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae) , 28 Oct 2009.

Netherlands: one female ( HAL 101B179) from Helleborus sp. ( Ranunculaceae ), 30 Mar 2012; one female ( QAR 101H008) from Trachelium caeruleum (Campanulaceae) , 18 July 2011; one female ( QAR 101H011) from H. macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae) , 18 Aug 2011; one female ( QAR 102H021) from H. macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae) , 16 June 2013; one female ( QAR 102H051) from H. macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae) , 15 Sept 2013.

Previous records. Africa: Algeria ( Athias-Henriot 1960), Egypt ( Chant 1959), Morocco ( McMurtry & Bounfour 1989), Tunisia ( Kreiter et al. 2004). Asia: Armenia ( Arutunjan 1970), Azerbaijan ( Gadzhiev & Abbasova 1965), Cyprus ( Vassiliou et al. 2012), India ( Sadana & Kanta 1971) , Iran ( Sepasgozarian 1977), Israel ( Amitai & Swirski 1978), Saudi Arabia ( Al-Atawi 2011a), Turkey ( Özman & Çobanoðlu 2001). Europe: Austria ( Bohm 1960), Belarus ( Sidlyarevich 1966), England ( Collyer 1956), Finland ( Tuovinen 1993), France ( Oudemans 1930 b), Georgia ( Wainstein 1961), Germany ( Dosse 1956), Greece ( Papadoulis & Emmanouel 1991), Hungary ( Bozai 1980), Italy ( Ragusa 1977), Latvia ( Petrova et al. 2000), Moldova (Wainstein 1973), Netherlands ( Chant 1959), Norway ( Denmark & Edland 2002), Poland ( Wiackowski & Suski 1963), Portugal ( Espinha et al. 1998), Russia ( Meshkov 1999), Slovakia ( Fend’a & Schniererová 2005), Slovenia ( Bohinc & Trdan 2013), Spain ( Escudero & Ferragut 1998), Sweden ( Sellnick 1958), Switzerland ( Chant 1959), Ukraine ( Livshitz & Kuznetsov 1972). North America: Canada ( Nesbitt 1951), Mexico ( Chant 1959), USA ( Nesbitt 1951). Oceania: Australia ( Beard 2001), New Zealand ( Chant 1959). South America: Chile ( Ragusa & Vargas 2002).

Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, but had no previous record in Taiwan. EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercially used biological control agent. This species has the lifestyle of Type III-e, generalist predator, which has soil/litter habitats similar to N. barkeri . Both species considered effective natural enemies of thrips and spider mites.