Neoseiulus alpinus (Schweizer)

ZahidiK, Abdelaziz, Akchour, Abdellah, K, Serge Kreiter, TixierK, Marie-Stéphane, MsandaK, Fouad & MousadikK, Abdelhamid El, 2023, Phytoseiid mites (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Central West Morocco: new records and key to females of all recorded Moroccan species, Acarologia 63 (3), pp. 691-724 : 694

Neoseiulus alpinus (Schweizer)

Amblyseius obtusus var. alpinus Schweizer 1922: 41 .

Amblyseius alpinus Schweizer 1949: 79 .

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) alpinus, Chant 1959: 105 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) alpinus, Westerboer & Bernhard 1963: 651 .

Typhlodromips alpinus, Moraes et al. 1986: 136 .

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) alpinus, Karg 1993: 189 .

Neoseiulus alpinus, Evans 1987: 1461 ; Moraes et al. 2004a: 100 ; Chant & McMurtry 2003: 37, 2007: 25.

Neoseiulus polonicus ( Willmann 1949) : 117 (Synonymy according to Evans 1987).

Neoseiulus aurescens ( Athias-Henriot 1961) : 441 (Synonymy according to Evans 1987). Neoseiulus polyporus Wainstein 1962: 143 (Synonymy according to Evans 1987).

World distribution — Algeria, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Cuba, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hawaii, Hungary, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Morocco, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, and USA (Arizona, California, and Washington).

Previous records from Morocco — This species has been reported for the first time by Tixier et al. (2016), one specimen was collected on Echium vulgare L. ( Boraginaceae ) in Larache Beach.

Specimens examined — 2 ♀♀ on Solanum nigrum L. ( Solanaceae ) in July 25, 2018 at Taoufiqui 1 domain; 1 ♀ and 2 ♀♀ on the same previous host plant respectively in September 2017 and 2018.

Remarks — Measurements and description of the adult females agree with those provided by Athias-Henriot (1961) and Chant and McMurtry (2003 a). This species is considered a synonym of Neoseiulus aurescens (Athias-Henriot) in Chant and McMurtry (2003 a). It is essentially recorded from Europe and it is observed rarely in crops, sometimes in vineyards and apple orchards ( Kreiter et al. 2000 ; Tixier et al. 2013).