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 Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot, 1957 Phytoseiulus persimilis Athias-Henriot, 1957: 347 . Material examined. Netherlands : three females one male ( HAL 095F302) from Symphoricarpos albus (Caprifoliaceae) , 27 Aug 2006 ; three females one male ( HAL 095F303) from S . albus (Caprifoliaceae) , 27 Aug 2006 ; one female ( HAL 095F317) from Lactuca sativa var . capitata (Asteraceae) , 12 Oct 2006 . New Zealand : three females (HAL099C250) from Fragaria ananassa (Rosaceae) , 29 Nov 2010 . USA : one male ( QAR 101H016) from F . ananassa (Rosaceae) , 30 Aug 2011 . Previous records. Africa: Algeria ( Athias-Henriot 1957a ), Egypt ( Afsah 2015 ), Kenya ( Migeon et al . 2019 ), Lybia ( Damiano 1961 ), Mauritius ( Kreiter et al . 2018 ), Morocco ( McMurtry & Bounfour 1989 ), South Africa (Mey- er 1981), Tunisia ( Rambier 1972 ). Asia: China ( Wu et al . 1997 ), Cyprus ( Vassiliou et al . 2012 ), Iran ( Hajizadeh & Mortazavi 2015 ), Israel ( Swirski & Amitai 1968 ), Japan ( Ohno et al . 2012 ), Jordan ( Allawi 1991 ), Philippine ( Corpuz-Raros 2005 ), Syria ( Barbar 2013 ), Turkey ( Sekeroglu & Kazak 1993 ). Central America: Costa Rica ( Denmark et al . 1999 ), Guatemala ( Denmark et al . 1999 ). Europe: Finland ( Tuovinen 1993 ), France ( Rambier 1972 ), Greece ( Swirski & Ragusa 1976 ), Hungary ( Bozai 1996 ), Italy ( Kennett & Caltagirone 1968 ), Latvia ( Salmane 2001 ), Portugal ( Ferreira & Carmona 1994 ), Serbia ( Kropczynska & Petanović 1987 ), Slovenia ( Kreiter et al . 2020 ), Spain ( Ferragut et al . 1983 ). North America: USA ( Denmark & Evans 2011 ). Oceania: Australia ( Goodwin & Schicha 1979 ). South America: Chile ( Gonzalez 1961 ), Peru ( El-Banhawy 1979 ), Venezuela ( Aponte & McMurtry 1993 ). Remarks. The species is distributed worldwide but had no previous record in Taiwan . Lo et al . (1986) reported that the species was introduced for biological control purposes from the United States . EPPO (2020) listed this species as a commercially used biological control agent of Type I-a, specialized predators of spider mites of Tetranychus ( McMurtry et al . 2013 ) .