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 Amblyseius andersoni ( Chant, 1957 ) Typhlodromus andersoni Chant, 1957: 296 . Typhlodromus ( Amblyseius ) andersoni .— Chant, 1959: 92 . Material examined. Netherlands : one female ( HAL 095F301) from Chrysanthemum morifolium (Asteraceae) , 27 Aug 2006 ; one female ( HAL 095F062) from Symphoricarpos albus (Caprifoliaceae) , 29 Oct 2006 ; one female ( HAL 100B070) from Skimmia sp. ( Rutaceae ), 20 July 2011 ; two females ( HAL 101B145) from Rosa hybrida (Rosaceae) , 20 Feb 2012 ; two females ( HAL 098B508) from Symphoricarpos sp. ( Caprifoliaceae ), 20 Sept 2009 ; one female ( QAR 102H025) from Bouvardia sp. ( Rubiaceae ), 22 June 2013 ; one female ( QAR 102H043) from Symphoricarpos sp. ( Caprifoliaceae ), 8 Sept 2013 ; three females ( QAR 102H045) from Bouvardia sp. ( Rubiaceae ), 8 Sept 2013 . USA : two females (HAL099C254) from Malus pumila (Rosaceae) , 25 Nov 2010 . Canada : one female ( QAR 101H027) from Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) , 28 Sept 2011 . Japan : one female ( QAR 101H019) from Capsicum annuum (Solanaceae) , 12 Sept 2011 . Previous records. Africa: Algeria ( Athias-Henriot 1958 ), Morocco ( Tixier et al . 2003 ).Asia: Azerbaijan ( Abbasova 1972 ), Cyprus ( Papadoulis et al . 2009 ), Japan ( Chant 1959 ), Syria ( Barbar 2013 ), Turkey ( Çobanoðlu 1991 ). Europe: Austria ( El-Borolossy 1989 ), Bosnia and Herzegovina (D̂ker et al . 2019), Czech Republic ( Kabíček 2004 ), Denmark ( Hansen & Johnsen 1986 ), England ( Chant & Hansell 1971 ), France ( Athias-Henriot 1962 ), Georgia ( Wainstein & Vartapetov 1973 ), Germany ( Westerboer & Bernhard 1963 ), Greece ( Papadoulis & Emmanouel 1991 ), Hungary ( Bozai 1980 ), Italy ( Castagnoli et al . 1984 ), Lativia ( Salmane 2003 ), Moldova (Wainstein 1973), the Netherlands ( Yoshida-Shaul & Chant 1995 ), Poland ( Boczek 1964 ), Portugal ( Carmona 1966 ), Serbia ( Radivojević & Petanović 1984 ), Slovakia ( Jedlickova 1993 ), Slovenia ( Bohinc et al . 2018 ), Spain ( Villaronga & Garcia Mari 1988 ), Sweden ( Steeghs et al . 1993 ), Switzerland ( Baillod & Venturi 1980 ), Ukraine ( Kolodochka 1973 ). North America: Canada ( Chant 1957 ), USA ( Chant 1959 ). Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide, except in Oceania and South America, and has no previous record of existing in Taiwan . EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercially used biological control agent. Most of specimens came from the Netherlands . However, one specimen originated from Japan . Toyoshima et al . (2016) recorded this species in Japan for the first time. Further confirmation is required to determine whether this species was introduced as a commercial product or it is a native population.