Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri Scheuten, 1857

Typhlodromus pyri Scheuten, 1857: 104.

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) pyri.— Papadoulis et al., 2009: 141.

Material examined. Netherlands: one female (HAL 100B198) from Rosmarinus officinalis (Lamiaceae), 3 Nov 2011.

Previous records. Africa: Egypt (El-Badry 1967). Asia: Azerbaijan (Abbasova 1970), Saudi Arabia (Fouly & Al-Rehiayani 2011), Turkey (Çobanoðlu 1991). Europe: Austria (El-Borolossy 1989), Belarus (Sidlyarevich 1966), Belgium (Chant et al. 1974), Croatia (Tixier et al. 2010), Czech Republic (Hluchy et al. 1991), Denmark (Chant et al. 1974), England (Chant 1959), Finland (Tuovinen 1993), France (Rambier 1974), Germany (Scheuten 1857), Greece (Swirski & Ragusa 1977), Hungary (Kropczynska & Jenser 1968), Italy (Castagnoli & Liguori 1986), Moldova (Wainstein 1973), Montenegro (Mijuskovic & Tomasevic 1975), Netherlands (Van de Vrie 1963), Norway (Edland 1987), Poland (Wiackowski & Suski 1963), Portugal (Carmona 1962), Russia (Meshkov 1999), Serbia (Kropczynska & Petanović 1987), Slovakia (Jedlickova & Kolodochka 1994), Slovenia (Bohinc & Trdan 2013), Spain (Pérez Otero & Mansilla Vázquez 1997), Sweden (Chant et al. 1974), Switzerland (Ragusa & Swirski 1976), Ukraine (Kolodochka 1974). North America: Canada (Putman & Herne 1966), USA (Chant 1959). Oceania: Australia (Schicha 1987), New Zealand (Collyer 1964a). South America: Chile (Ragusa & Vargas 2002).

Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, but only one specimens from the Netherlands has been found. EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercially used biological control agent. The species is considered as lifestyle Type III-a, generalist predator that lives on pubescent leaves, and also has the ability to feed on fungi (McMurtry et al. 2013).