Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein)

Negm, Mohamed W., Alatawi, Fahad J. & Aldryhim, Yousif N., 2012, A new species of Neoseiulus Hughes, with records of seven species of predatory mites associated with date palm in Saudi Arabia (Acari: Phytoseiidae), Zootaxa 3356, pp. 57-64 : 60

Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein)

Amblyseius bicaudus Wainstein, 1962: 146 .

Neoseiulus bicaudus .— Chant & McMurtry, 2003: 23; 2007: 25; Moraes et al., 2004: 108; Palevsky et al., 2009: 1729 ; Asali Fayaz et al., 2011: 375.

Specimens examined. One female, Ouyaina, Riyadh, 17 March 2010, 24°53' N, 46°21' E, alt. 740 m, on Garden nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus L. ( Tropaeolaceae ) in a date palm orchard.

Remarks. The type specimens of this species were collected from grass at Kargalink, Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan. The Saudi specimen is very similar to the redescription done by Palevsky et al. (2009) who illustrated genu IV (Fig. 6E) with six setae. However, genu IV has seven setae in the Saudi specimen. This is the first record of this species in Saudi Arabia. This species occurs in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA ( Moraes et al., 2004) and Iran ( Asali Fayaz et al., 2011).