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
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-02-15
4927
3
301
330
journal article
8089
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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.