Rhyzobius (Lindorus) lophanthae (Blaisdell, 1892)

(Fig. 18C, Fig. 20)

Material: Bayt Jala 1 (PMNH # E12694, 1, 22 March 2018). Khallet Hamad (PMNH # E12695, 10, 27 March 2018) . Bethlehem 2 (PMNH # E12696, 2, 2 April 2018) . Al-Kum (PMNH # E12697, 4, 5 April 2018) . Bethlehem 1 (PMNH # E12698, 1, 1 April 2018) . Hadab al Fawar (PMNH # E12700, 32, 12 April 2018) . Al Buweib (PMNH # E12701, 2, 9 April 2018) .

Remarks: Rhyzobius lophanthae is one of the most important predators of scale insects on date palm trees in Palestine (Kehat 1967). It is highly predatory on Chrysomphalus dictyospermi (Branco et al. 2017) . It was reported previously from our region (Halperin et al. 1995). During this study, it was recorded from seven localities in the south of the West Bank.