Species complexes of leaf-inhabiting mites on Prunus laurocerasus L. (Rosaceae) trees in Ordu, Turkey Author Akyazi, Rana Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey ranaakyazi@odu.edu.tr Author Soysal, Mete Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey Author Altunç, Yunus Emre Plant Protection Department, Faculty of Agriculture, Ordu University, Ordu, Turkey text Acarological Studies 2022 2022-01-27 4 1 9 20 http://dx.doi.org/10.47121/acarolstud.996567 journal article 10.47121/acarolstud.996567 2667-5684 Amblyseius andersoni (Chant) Material examined: 2♀♀ ( Altınordu , 29.06.2016 ) , 13♀♀ ( Altınordu , 21.07.2015 ) , 1♀ , 1♂ (Perşembe, 12.08.2015 ), 8♀♀ ( Ünye , 03.08.2015 ) , 2♀♀ ( Ünye , 22.06.2016 ) , 1♀ ( İkizce , 11.08.2016 ) , 4♀♀ ( Fatsa , 11.08.2015 ) , 2♀♀ ( Ulubey , 20.09.2016 ) , 1♀ ( Ulubey , 01.10.2015 ) , 1♀ ( Gülyalı , 19.08.2015 ) , 1♀ , 1♂ (Kumru, 29.07.2016 ). Comments: Amblyseius andersoni is a very common predatory mite species which shows distribution in more than thirty countries ( Demite et al., 2017 ). In Turkey , it was reported on different plants by many researchers ( Çobanoğlu, 1992 ; Akyazı and Ecevit, 2003, 2005; Çobanoğlu, 2004 ; İnal, 2005 ; Yanar and Ecevit, 2005 ; Bayram and Çobanoğlu, 2007 ; Kumral and Kovancı, 2007 ; Özşişli and Çobanoğlu, 2011 ; Yeşilayer and Çobanoğlu, 2011 ; Faraji et al., 2011 ; Özsayın, 2012 ; Satar et al., 2013 ; Kasap et al., 2013 ; GenÇer- GökÇe, 2015 ; Kumral and Çobanoğlu, 2015a ,b; Çobanoğlu and Kumral, 2016 ; Çobanoğlu and Güldalı, 2017 ; Akyazı et al, 2017; Soysal and Akyazı, 2018 ; AltunÇ and Akyazı, 2019; Çobanoğlu et al., 2020 ; Döker et al., 2020 ; Ersin et al., 2020 ). It was classified as Type III Lifestyle-generalist predators by McMurtry et al. (2013) .