Neoseiulus alpinus (Schweizer, 1922)

Amblyseius obtustus var. alpinus Schweizer, 1922: 41 .

Amblyseius alpinus .—Schweizer, 1949: 79.

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) alpinus .—Chant, 1959: 105.

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) alpinus .—Westerboer & Bernhard, 1963: 651. Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) alpinus .—Karg, 1993: 189.

Neoseiulus alpinus .—Evans, 1987: 1461; Moraes et al., 2004: 100; Chant & McMurtry, 2007: 25. Neoseiulus aurescens .—Tuttle & Muma, 1973: 20.

This species is observed rarely on crops, sometimes in apple orchards and on strawberries, where it seems able to control T. urticae and Phytonemus pallidus (Banks) (Fitzgerald et al., 2008) . Studies in USSR discovered the thelytoky in this species. This is the first record of this species in Morocco.

Specimens examined: 2003, Larache Beach on Echium vulgare (Boraginaceae) (1 female).

Previous records: Algeria, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile (Ragusa & Vargas, 2002), Cuba, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hawai, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Tunisia, Ukraine, USA.