Neoseiulus bicaudus (Wainstein, 1962) Amblyseius bicaudus Wainstein, 1962: 146. Material examined. Japan: one female (HAL 095F295) from Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae), 3 Aug 2006; one female (HAL 095F308) from V. vinifera (Vitaceae), 8 Sept 2006. Previous records. Africa: Egypt (Abo-Shnaf & Moraes 2014), Tunisia (Sahraoui et al. 2012). Asia: Armenia (Arutunjan 1969), Azerbaijan (Abbasova 1972), China (Zhang et al. 2017), Iran (Asali Fayaz et al. 2011), Israel (Swirski & Amitai 1985), Kazakhstan (Wainstein 1962), Saudi Arabia (Negm et al. 2012), Syria (Barbar 2014), Tajikistan (Wainstein 1962), Turkey (��obano��lu 1991). Europe: France (Athias-Henriot 1966), Georgia (Wainstein & Vartapetov 1973), Greece (Papadoulis & Emmanouel 1990), Hungary (Bozai 1980), Italy (Ragusa & Paoletti 1985), Latvia (Salmane 1996), Moldova (Kolodochka 1980), Norway (Denmark & Edland 2002), Portugal (Espinha et al. 1998), Russia (Wainstein 1962), Serbia (Stojnić et al. 2002), Slovakia (Fend���a 2010), Spain (Iraola et al. 1997), Switzerland (Airoldi et al. 1989), Ukraine (Livshitz & Kuznetsov 1972). North America: Mexico (Denmark & Evans 2011), USA (Congdon 2002). South America: Chile (Trincado et al. 2018). Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, except in Oceania. It is a native predator of spider mites and thrips in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China and is more adapted than nonnative species to hot and dry climates (Zhang et al. 2017). It was recently showed to be promising predator of the whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Han et al. 2020).
Published as part of 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, pp. 301-330 in Zootaxa 4927 (3) on page 306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4542155
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