Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten, 1857

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 : 317

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1
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scientific name	Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten, 1857
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Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten, 1857 View in CoL

Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten, 1857: 104 View in CoL .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri View in CoL .— Papadoulis et al., 2009: 141.

Material examined. Netherlands: one female ( HAL 100B198) from Rosmarinus officinalis (Lamiaceae) , 3 Nov 2011.

Previous records. Africa: Egypt ( El-Badry 1967). Asia: Azerbaijan ( Abbasova 1970), Saudi Arabia ( Fouly & Al-Rehiayani 2011), Turkey ( Çobanoðlu 1991). Europe: Austria ( El-Borolossy 1989), Belarus ( Sidlyarevich 1966), Belgium ( Chant et al. 1974), Croatia ( Tixier et al. 2010), Czech Republic ( Hluchy et al. 1991), Denmark ( Chant et al. 1974), England ( Chant 1959), Finland ( Tuovinen 1993), France ( Rambier 1974), Germany ( Scheuten 1857), Greece ( Swirski & Ragusa 1977), Hungary ( Kropczynska & Jenser 1968), Italy ( Castagnoli & Liguori 1986), Moldova (Wainstein 1973), Montenegro ( Mijuskovic & Tomasevic 1975), Netherlands ( Van de Vrie 1963), Norway ( Edland 1987), Poland ( Wiackowski & Suski 1963), Portugal (Carmona 1962), Russia ( Meshkov 1999), Serbia ( Kropczynska & Petanović 1987), Slovakia ( Jedlickova & Kolodochka 1994), Slovenia ( Bohinc & Trdan 2013), Spain ( Pérez Otero & Mansilla Vázquez 1997), Sweden ( Chant et al. 1974), Switzerland ( Ragusa & Swirski 1976), Ukraine ( Kolodochka 1974). North America: Canada (Putman & Herne 1966), USA ( Chant 1959). Oceania: Australia ( Schicha 1987), New Zealand ( Collyer 1964a). South America: Chile ( Ragusa & Vargas 2002).

Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, but only one specimens from the Netherlands has been found. EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercially used biological control agent. The species is considered as lifestyle Type III-a, generalist predator that lives on pubescent leaves, and also has the ability to feed on fungi ( McMurtry et al. 2013).