Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948

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 : 23-25

Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948

Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948: 141 ; Ryu et al. 2001: 8; Moraes et al. 1986: 70, 2004: 104; Chant & McMurtry 2003: 35, 2007: 25.

Typhlodromus (Neoseiulus) barkeri, Nesbitt 1951: 35 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) barkeri, Chant 1959: 63 .

Amblyseius barkeri, Athias-Henriot 1961: 440 ; Moraes et al. 1989: 95.

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) barkeri, Hughes 1961: 222 .

Typhlodromus barkeri, Hirschmann 1962: 5 .

Amblyseius (Amblyseius) barkeri, van der Merwe 1968: 112 .

Amblyseius mckenziei Schuster & Pritchard, 1963: 268 (synonymy according to Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983).

Amblyseius usitatus van der Merwe, 1965: 71 (synonymy according to Ueckermann & Loots 1988). Amblyseius oahuensis Prasad, 1968: 1518 (synonymy according to Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983). Amblyseius picketti Specht, 1968: 681 (synonymy according to Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983). Amblyseius mycophilus Karg, 1970: 290 (synonymy according to Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983). Amblyseius masiaka Blommers & Chazeau, 1974: 308 (synonymy according to Ueckermann & Loots 1988).

Specimens examined – 20 ♀♀ and two ♂♂. Guilan Province – one ♀, Rasht (3 m aasl, 49° 35′ 33′′ E, 37° 16′ 50.87′′ N), from the leaves of Rubus idaeus L. ( Rosaceae ), 28.VII.2020. Sistan and Baluchestan Province – 1 ♀, Konarak city, Tang village (15 m aasl, 59° 59′ 14′′ E, 25° 32′ 02′′ N), on Prosopis juliflora (Swartz) De Candolle (Fabaceae) , 3.IV.2018; 2 ♀♀, Zabol city Balakhaneh village (483 m aasl, 61° 30′ 13′′ E, 31° 03′ 08′′ N), on Morus sp. (Moraceae) , 10.V.2018; 1 ♀, Chahanimeh region (501 m aasl, 61° 43′ 07′′ E, 30° 50′ 39′′ N), on Olea europea L. ( Oleaceae ), 11.V.2018; 1 ♀, Bampur city, Rige Kaput village (526 m aasl, 60° 29′ 52′′ E, 27° 11′ 57′′ N), on Ziziphus sp. (Rhamnaceae) , 18.X.2018; 2 ♀♀, Zahedan city, Kalateh Razagh Zadeh (1497 m aasl, 60° 48′ 50′′ E, 29° 23′ 28′′ N), on Pinus sp. (Pinaceae) , 19.X.2018; 1 ♀, Zabol city, Agricultural Research Center (481 m aasl, 61° 29′ 22′′ E, 31° 01′ 10′′ N), on Phragmites sp. (Poaceae) , 5.II.2019; 2 ♀♀, Mirjaveh city (1562 m aasl, 61° 14′ 01′′ E, 28° 47′ 03′′ N), on Rosa damascena Miller (Rosaceae) , 9.II.2019; 1 ♀ and 1 ♂, Fanouj city (729 m aasl, 61° 31′ 19′′ E, 30° 51′ 13′′ N), on Pistacia terebinthus L. ( Anacardiaceae ), 9.IV.2019; 2 ♀♀, Sistan Dam (486 m aasl, 59° 38′ 58′′ E, 26° 24′ 44′′ N), on unknown weeds, 31.V.2019; 1 ♀, Niatak forest (482 m aasl, 61° 37′ 15′′ E, 31° 07′ 06′′ N), on unknown weeds, 2.VI.2019; 3 ♀♀, Khash city, Deh Pabid village (1777 m aasl, 60° 47′ 08′′ E, 28° 36′ 29′′ N), on Prunus armeniaca L. ( Rosaceae ), 1.IX.2019; 1 ♀, Zabol city, Ebrahim Abad (481 m aasl, 61° 26′ 07′′ E, 30° 54′ 53′′ N), on Eucalyptus sp. (Myrtaceae) , 31.VII.2019; 1 ♀ and 1 ♂, Nimrooz city (481 m aasl, 61° 24′ 40′′ E, 31° 07′ 04′′ N), on Salsola sp. (Amaranthaceae) , 8.VII.2020.

World distribution – Algeria, Argentina, Australia, Benin, Brazil, Burundi, Canary islands, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Cyprus, Egypt, England, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guinea, Hawaii, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Latvia, Lebanon, Madagascar, Malawi, Mayotte island, Morocco, Mozambique, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Portugal, Reunion island, Rodrigues island, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Taiwan, Tahiti, Thailand, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, USA, West bank, Yemen. Precise distribution in Iran is documented in Kazemi et al. (2022).

Remarks – This species was already recorded from Guilan Province but is a new record for Sistan and Baluchestan Province. Morphological and morphometric characters fit well the numerous previous measurements already published (See for example Rahmani et al. 2010; Beaulieu and Beard 2018; Kreiter et al. 2020b).