Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) caudiglans Schuster, 1959

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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) caudiglans Schuster, 1959

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) caudiglans Schuster, 1959: 88 .

Material examined. USA: one female ( HAL 095F312) from Prunus persica (Rosaceae) , 16 Sept 2006; one female ( QAR 101H020) from P. persica (Rosaceae) , 16 Sept 2011; one female ( QAR 101H021) from P. persica (Rosaceae) , 19 Sept 2011; one female ( HAL 101B058) from P. persica (Rosaceae) , 23 Sept 2011; one female ( QAR 102H019) from P. persica (Rosaceae) , 8 June 2013; one female ( QAR 102H047) from P. persica (Rosaceae) , 12 Sept 2013; one female ( QAR 102H052) from P. persica (Rosaceae) , 17 Sept 2013.

Japan: three females ( QAR 102H049) from Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae) , 13 Sept 2013;

Previous records. Asia: Azerbaijan ( Abbasova 1972), China ( Wu 1988), Iran ( Hajizadeh et al. 2002), Europe: Austria ( El-Borolossy 1989), England (Collyer 1964), Latvia ( Salmane & Petrova 2002), Lithuania ( Pauriene 1970), Moldova ( Beglyarov & Malov 1977), Norway (Evans & Edland 1998), Russia (Wainstein 1975), Slovakia ( Jedlickova & Kolodochka 1994), Ukraine ( Kolodochka 1978). North America: Canada ( Downing & Moilliet 1971), USA ( Schuster 1959). Oceania: Australia ( Chant et al. 1978), New Zealand ( Collyer 1964a).

Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, except in Africa and South America. Most of the specimens were found on peaches from the United States, except one was found on grapes from Japan.