Neoseiulus marginatus ( Wainstein, 1961 )

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 : 27-28

Neoseiulus marginatus ( Wainstein, 1961)

Typhlodromus marginatus Wainstein, 1961: 158 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) marginatus, Ehara 1966: 21 .

Amblyseius (Typhlodromopsis) marginatus, Arutunjan 1970: 17 .

Amblyseius marginatus, Kolodochka 1973: 80 ; Salmane 1999: 107.

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) marginatus, Karg 1991: 21 .

Neoseiulus marginatus, Moraes et al. 2004: 132 ; Chant & McMurtry 2007: 29.

Neoseiulus polyporus ( Wainstein, 1962) : 143 (synonymy according to Abbasova 1972).

Neoseiulus subtilisetosus ( Beglyarov, 1962) : 199 (synonymy according to Abbasova 1972).

Specimens examined – eight ♀♀ and one ♂. Guilan Province – one ♀ and one ♂, Langrud (− 19 m aasl, 50° 9′ 6.36′′ E, 37° 11′ 44.36′′ N), in soil of fruit gardens (apple, pear and cherry) and Rasht (3 m aasl, 49° 35′ 33′′ E, 37° 16′ 50.87′′ N), on Platanus sp. (Platanaceae) , 10.VII.2020. Sistan and Baluchestan Province – one ♀, Tang village (15 m aasl, 59° 59′ 14′′ E, 25° 32′ 02′′ N), on Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) De Candolle (Fabaceae) , 2.IV.2018; 2 ♀♀, Konarak city, Kahir (29 m aasl, 60° 07′ 53′′ E, 25° 35′ 24′′ N), on Citrus limon (L.) Burman ( Rutaceae ), 17.IV.2018; 1 ♀, Iranshahr city (542 m aasl, 60° 38′ 19′′ E, 27° 11′ 09′′ N), on an unknown weeds, 14.VI.2018; 2 ♀♀, Bonjar city Abad (486 m aasl, 61° 34′ 06′′ E, 31° 02′ 08′′ N), on Morus alba L. ( Moraceae ), 5.V.2019; 1 ♀, Hamoon city, Mount Khajeh (482 m aasl, 50° 9′ 6.36′′ E, 30° 57′ 18′′ N), on an unknown weeds, 25.V.2020; 1 ♀, Hamoon city, Mohamad Abad (480 m aasl, 61° 26′ 21′′ E, 30° 52′ 05′′ N), on Citrullus sp. (Cucurbitaceae) , 22.VI.2020.

World distribution – Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Czechoslovakia, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Serbia, Türkiye, Turkmenistan, Ukraine.

Remarks – This species was already recorded for several Iranian Provinces and especially for Guilan Province. But it is a new record for Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The measurements of the specimens here observed agree well with those given by Rahmani et al. (2010) for Iranian specimens.