Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes 1948
Creators: name: Liao, Jhih-Rong
name: Ho, Chyi-Chen
name: Ko, Chiun-Cheng
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Arachnida
Mesostigmata
Phytoseiidae
Neoseiulus
Neoseiulus barkeri

description: Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948
Neoseiulus barkeri Hughes, 1948: 141.
Neoseiulus barkeri.— Liao et al., 2020: 252.
Material examined. Thailand: one female (HAL 095F297) from Asparagus officinalis (Asparagaceae), 15 Aug 2006; one female (HAL 095F298) from Ocimum sanctum (Lamiaceae), 21 Aug 2006; one female (HAL 101B144) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae), 13 Feb 2012; one protonymph (QAR 101H015) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae), 30 Aug 2011; Thailand, one female (QAR 101H022) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae), 17 June 2013.
Netherlands: one female (HAL 095F309) from Lactuca sativa var. capitata (Asteraceae), 14 Sept 2006; Netherlands, one female (QAR 101H038) from Thymes sp. (Lamiaceae), 5 Sept 2013.
Israel:one female (HAL 095G063) from Kochia sp. (Amaranthaceae), 31 Oct 2006;three females (HAL 095G064) from Limonium sp. (Plumbaginaceae), 31 Oct 2006.
Japan: one female (HAL 100B075) from Vitis vinifera (Vitaceae), 2 May 2011; one female (QAR 101H013) from Perilla frutescens (Lamiaceae), 23 Aug 2011; one female (QAR 101H023) from Chrysanthemum sp. (Asteraceae), 21 Sept 2011; one female (QAR 101H050) from P. frutescens (Lamiaceae), 13 Sept 2013; one female (QAR 101H036) from P. frutescens (Lamiaceae), 3 Sept 2013.
New Zealand: one female (QAR 101H001) from Malus pumila (Rosaceae), 5 Apr 2011.
USA: one female (QAR 101H014) from Anthriscus cerefolium (Apiaceae), 27 Aug 2011
Peru: six females (QAR 101H029) from A. officinalis (Asparagaceae), 21 July 2013;
Previous records. Africa: Algeria (Athias-Henriot 1961), Benin (Zannou et al. 2006), Burundi (Zannou et al. 2006), Canary Islands (Ferragut & Peña-Estévez 2003), Cape Verde (Ueckermann 1992), Egypt (Abo-Shnaf & Moraes 2014), Ghana (Moraes et al. 1989a), Guinea (Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983), Kenya (Zannou et al. 2006), Malawi (Zannou et al. 2005), Morocco (Kreiter et al. 2004), Mozambique (Zannou et al. 2006), Nigeria (Moraes et al. 1989a), Senegal (Kade et al. 2011), South Africa (Ueckermann & Meyer 1988), Tunisia (Kreiter et al. 2002), Yemen (Ueckermann 1996). Asia: China (Wu 1980), Cyprus (Amitai 1992), Iran (Rahmani et al. 2010), Israel (Swirski & Amitai 1965), Japan (Ehara 1972), Jordan (Allawi 1991), Oman (Hountondji et al. 2010), Saudi Arabia (Al-Atawi 2011b), South Korea (Ryu 1997), Syria (Barbar 2013), Thailand (Oliveira et al. 2012), Turkey (Swirski & Amitai 1982). Europe: England (Hughes 1948), Finland (Tuovinen 1993), France (Kreiter et al. 2000), Georgia (Wainstein & Vartapetov 1973), Germany (Karg 1965), Greece (Papaioannou-Souliotis 1981), Italy (Athias-Henriot 1961), Latvia (Petrova et al. 2000), the Netherlands (van de Vrie 1963), Norway (Denmark & Edland 2002), Portugal (Ferreira & Carmona 1994), Russia (Meshkov 1999), Spain (Ragusa & Athias-Henriot 1983), Sweden (Steeghs et al. 1993), Ukraine (Wainstein & Shcherbak 1972). North America: USA (Denmark & Evans 2011). Oceania: Australia (Waite & Gerson 1994), Hawaii (Denmark & Evans 2011). South America: Brazil (Moraes et al. 1993), Chile (Ragusa & Vargas 2002).
Remarks. Beaulieu & Beard (2018) provided a detailed redescription and illustration of this species. They also designated a neotype of the species. The species is distributed worldwide, including in Taiwan (Demite et al. 2020; Liao et al. 2020). The species is considered a subtype III-e generalist predators that lives on soil/litter, and plants (McMurtry et al. 2013). EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercial biological control agent for thrips and broad mite.
description: Published as part of Liao, Jhih-Rong, Ho, Chyi-Chen & Ko, Chiun-Cheng, 2021, Predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) intercepted from samples imported to Taiwan, with description of a new species, pp. 301-330 in Zootaxa 4927 (3) on pages 305-306, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4542155