Neoseiulus agrestis ( Karg, 1960 )

Farazmand, Azadeh, Jalaeian, Mahdi, Kamali, Hashem, Saboori, Alireza, Tixier, MarieStéphane & Kreiter, Serge, 2023, Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) in four provinces of Iran, Persian Journal of Acarology 12 (1), pp. 21-58 : 23

Neoseiulus agrestis ( Karg, 1960)

Typhlodromus agrestis Karg, 1960: 449 .

Amblyseius agrestis, Karg 1971: 196 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) agrestis, Wainstein 1975: 920 .

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) agrestis, Karg 1993: 186 .

Neoseiulus agrestis, Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983: 666 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 67, 2004: 98; Chant & McMurtry 2003: 35, 2007: 25.

Neoseiulus aequisetus ( Wainstein, 1962) : 146 (synonymy according to Karg 1975).

Specimens examined – two ♀♀ collected and measured. Guilan Province – two ♀♀, Rasht (3 m aasl, 49° 35′ 33′′ E, 37° 16′ 50.87′′ N), on Phaseolus vulgaris L. ( Fabaceae ) and Urtica dioica L. ( Urticaceae ), 28.VII.2020.

World distribution – Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Moldova, The Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, USA. Precise distribution in Iran is documented in Kazemi et al. (2022).

Remarks – Morphological characters and measurements of the specimens observed agree with those retrieved in the literature, especially with those from Iran ( Table 1), with only some slight variations in setae length. This species is new to the Guilan Province. Khaustov et al. (2022) described a new species to Science, N. neoagrestis. The difference with N. agrestis is that the new species has gland gd2. Our specimens have no gd2 and belong all to the species N. agrestis .