Neoseiulus cucumeris (Oudemans, 1930)

Tixier, Marie-Stephane, Allam, Latifa, Douin, Martial & Kreiter, Serge, 2016, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) of Morocco: new records, descriptions of five new species, re-descriptions of two species, and key for identification, Zootaxa 4067 (5), pp. 501-551 : 513

Neoseiulus cucumeris (Oudemans, 1930)

Typhlodromus cucumeris Oudemans, 1930b: 69 .

Amblyseius cucumeris . — Athias-Henriot, 1957: 336.

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) cucumeris . — Chant, 1959: 78.

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) cucumeris . — De Leon, 1965: 23.

Neoseiulus cucumeris . — Moraes et al., 1986: 76; Moraes et al., 2004: 115; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 25.

This species is very commonly found in Europe. It has been already reported from Morocco by McMurtry & Bounfour (1989). It is commercialised and used in greenhouses to control phytophagous mites but essentially thrips (Messelink et al., 2006). It is also known to feed on tarsonemid mites (Tuovinen & Lindquist, 2010) and Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) (Hwang Yong et al., 2008) . It has been naturally reported in eco- and agrosystems especially on grass.

Specimens examined: 2003, Larache on Juncus articulates (Juncaceae) (7 females), Gorges of Zegzel on Lavandula dentata (Lamiaceae) (1 female).

Previous records: Algeria, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Byelorussia, Canada, Canary Islands, Caucasus region, Chile (Ragusa & Vargas, 2002), Cyprus, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Mexico, Morocco (Kreiter et al., 2007), New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, USA.