Predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) intercepted from samples imported to Taiwan, with description of a new species Author Liao, Jhih-Rong Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan Author Ho, Chyi-Chen Taiwan Acari Research Laboratory, Taichung City, Taiwan Author Ko, Chiun-Cheng Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan & Kocc 2501 @ ntu. edu. tw; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8815 - 3981 occ2501@ntu.edu.tw text Zootaxa 2021 2021-02-15 4927 3 301 330 journal article 8089 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1 b1904bd2-efa8-42d8-9b89-22fc22e5b5b2 1175-5326 4542155 9A141A50-151D-4261-9A62-FD300B521E86 Typhlodromus ( Anthoseius ) rhenanus ( Oudemans, 1905 ) Seiulus rhenanus Oudemans, 1905: 78 . Typhlodromella rhenana .—Evans & Momen, 1988: 210. Typhlodromus ( Anthoseius ) rhenanus .— Papadoulis et al ., 2009: 127 . Material examined. USA : one female ( HAL 095G065) from Thymus vulgaris (Lamiaceae) , 2 Nov 2006 . Netherlands : one female ( HAL 098B507) from Rosmarinus officinalis (Lamiaceae) , 2 Oct 2009 ; one female ( HAL 100B067) from R . officinalis (Lamiaceae) , 19 May 2011 ; six females ( HAL 101B182) from R . officinalis (Lamiaceae) , 30 Mar 2012 . Previous records. Africa: Algeria ( Athias-Henriot 1957b ), Tunisia ( Kreiter et al . 2002 ). Asia:Azerbaijan ( Gadzhiev & Abbasova 1965 ), Cyprus ( Georghiou 1959 ), India ( Narayanan & Ghai 1961 ) , Iran ( Khalil-Manesh 1973 ), Israel ( Swirski & Amitai 1961 ), Kazakhstan ( Andreeva 1966 ), Syria ( Barbar 2013 ), Turkey ( Çobanoðlu 1989a ). Europe: Belarus ( Sidlyarevich 1966 ), Belgium ( Nesbitt 1951 ), Denmark ( Hansen & Johnsen 1986 ), England ( Nesbitt 1951 ), Finland ( Tuovinen & Rokx 1991 ), France ( Nesbitt 1951 ), Germany ( Oudemans 1905 a), Greece ( Papadoulis et al . 2009 ), Hungary ( Kropczynska & Jenser 1968 ), Italy ( Gunthart 1960 ), Latvia ( Salmane & Petrova 2002 ), Moldova ( Kolodochka 1980 b), Montengro ( Mijuskovic & Tomasevic 1975 ), Netherlands ( Miedema 1987 ), Norway ( Edland 1987 ), Poland ( Suski 1961 ), Portugal (Carmona 1962), Russia ( Beglyarov 1957 ), Serbia ( Radivojević & Petanović 1984 ), Slovakia ( Fend’a 2010 ), Slovenia ( Bohinc & Trdan 2013 ), Spain ( Iraola et al . 1997 ), Sweden ( Steeghs et al . 1993 ), Switzerland ( Gunthart 1960 ), Ukraine ( Kolodochka 1974 ). North America: Canada ( Nesbitt 1951 ), USA ( Nesbitt 1951 ). South America: Brazil ( Diehl et al . 2012 ); Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, except in Oceania. Chant (1959) reported the species after Oudemans (1905) described it. Subsequent researchers provided conflicting opinions on the species status. Evans & Momen (1988) examined the type materials of the species and related species and provided a detailed redescription.