“…The old world date mite, Oligonychus afrasiaticus (McGregor), is an important pest of date palms in most of North Africa [Mauritania (Coudin & Galvez, 1976), Algeria (Guessoum, 1986), Libya (Edongali et al ., 1988), Egypt (Saleh & Hosny, 1979)] and parts of Asia [Israel (Palevsky et al ., 2003, 2004), Iraq (Hussain, 1969), Saudi Arabia (Talhouk, 1991), Oman (Elwan, 2000) and Yemen (Ba & Bass, 2000)].…”