Neoseiulus paspalivorus ( De Leon, 1957 )

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 : 29

Neoseiulus paspalivorus ( De Leon, 1957)

Typhlodromus paspalivorus De Leon, 1957: 143 .

Typhlodromus (Amblyseius) paspalivorus, Chant 1959: 79 .

Amblyseius paspalivorus, Schicha 1981: 210 .

Cydnodromus paspalivorus, Muma 1961: 290 .

Amblyseius (Neoseiulus) paspalivorus, Ghai & Gupta 1984: 173 .

Neoseiulus paspalivorus, Muma and Denmark 1970: 110 ; Moraes et al. 1986: 92, 2000: 248; Chant & McMurtry 2003: 27, 2007; 29.

Specimens examined – one ♀. Sistan and Baluchestan Province – one ♀, Mirjaveh city (1562 m aasl, 61° 14′ 01′′ E, 28° 47′ 03ʺ N), on Rosa damascena Miller (Rosaceae) , 9.II.2019.

World distribution – Benin, Brazil, Cuba, Ghana, Guadeloupe Island, India, Iran, Jamaica, Oman, Philippines, La Réunion Island, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, USA. Precise distribution in Iran is documented in Kazemi et al. (2022).

Remarks – This species was already recorded from Iran but is a new record for Sistan and Baluchestan Province. The measurements of specimens collected agree well with those given by Moraes et al. (2000) for specimens from Carabbean Islands, by Famah-Sourassou et al. (2011) for specimens from Benin, Brazil and Ghana, with Kreiter et al. (2020b) for specimens from La Réunion and above all with redescription by Ostovan el al. (2012) based on an Iranian specimen.