Amblyseius andersoni ( Chant, 1957 )

Liao, Jhih-Rong, Ho, Chyi-Chen & Ko, Chiun-Cheng, 2021, Predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) intercepted from samples imported to Taiwan, with description of a new species, Zootaxa 4927 (3), pp. 301-330 : 303

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.