Neoseiulus cucumeris (Oudemans, 1930)

Typhlodromus cucumeris Oudemans, 1930: 69 .

Neoseiulus cucumeris .— Beard, 2001: 103.

Material examined. Australia: one female (HAL 098B609) from Hydrangea macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae), 28 Oct 2009.

Netherlands: one female (HAL 101B179) from Helleborus sp. ( Ranunculaceae), 30 Mar 2012; one female (QAR 101H008) from Trachelium caeruleum (Campanulaceae), 18 July 2011; one female (QAR 101H011) from H. macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae), 18 Aug 2011; one female (QAR 102H021) from H. macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae), 16 June 2013; one female (QAR 102H051) from H. macrophylla (Hydrangeaceae), 15 Sept 2013.

Previous records. Africa: Algeria (Athias-Henriot 1960), Egypt (Chant 1959), Morocco (McMurtry & Bounfour 1989), Tunisia (Kreiter et al. 2004). Asia: Armenia (Arutunjan 1970), Azerbaijan (Gadzhiev & Abbasova 1965), Cyprus (Vassiliou et al. 2012), India (Sadana & Kanta 1971), Iran (Sepasgozarian 1977), Israel (Amitai & Swirski 1978), Saudi Arabia (Al-Atawi 2011a), Turkey (Özman & Çobanoðlu 2001). Europe: Austria (Bohm 1960), Belarus (Sidlyarevich 1966), England (Collyer 1956), Finland (Tuovinen 1993), France (Oudemans 1930 b), Georgia (Wainstein 1961), Germany (Dosse 1956), Greece (Papadoulis & Emmanouel 1991), Hungary (Bozai 1980), Italy (Ragusa 1977), Latvia (Petrova et al. 2000), Moldova (Wainstein 1973), Netherlands (Chant 1959), Norway (Denmark & Edland 2002), Poland (Wiackowski & Suski 1963), Portugal (Espinha et al. 1998), Russia (Meshkov 1999), Slovakia (Fend’a & Schniererová 2005), Slovenia (Bohinc & Trdan 2013), Spain (Escudero & Ferragut 1998), Sweden (Sellnick 1958), Switzerland (Chant 1959), Ukraine (Livshitz & Kuznetsov 1972). North America: Canada (Nesbitt 1951), Mexico (Chant 1959), USA (Nesbitt 1951). Oceania: Australia (Beard 2001), New Zealand (Chant 1959). South America: Chile (Ragusa & Vargas 2002).

Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, but had no previous record in Taiwan. EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercially used biological control agent. This species has the lifestyle of Type III-e, generalist predator, which has soil/litter habitats similar to N. barkeri . Both species considered effective natural enemies of thrips and spider mites.