Amblyseius andersoni (Chant)

Material examined: 2♀♀ (Altınordu, 29.06.2016), 13♀♀ (Altınordu, 21.07.2015), 1♀, 1♂ (Perşembe, 12.08.2015), 8♀♀ ( Ünye, 03.08.2015) , 2♀♀ ( Ünye, 22.06.2016) , 1♀ ( İkizce, 11.08.2016) , 4♀♀ ( Fatsa, 11.08.2015) , 2♀♀ ( Ulubey, 20.09.2016) , 1♀ ( Ulubey, 01.10.2015) , 1♀ ( Gülyalı, 19.08.2015) , 1♀, 1♂ (Kumru, 29.07.2016).

Comments: Amblyseius andersoni is a very common predatory mite species which shows distribution in more than thirty countries (Demite et al., 2017). In Turkey, it was reported on different plants by many researchers (Çobanoğlu, 1992; Akyazı and Ecevit, 2003, 2005; Çobanoğlu, 2004; İnal, 2005; Yanar and Ecevit, 2005; Bayram and Çobanoğlu, 2007; Kumral and Kovancı, 2007; Özşişli and Çobanoğlu, 2011; Yeşilayer and Çobanoğlu, 2011; Faraji et al., 2011; Özsayın, 2012; Satar et al., 2013; Kasap et al., 2013; GenÇer- GökÇe, 2015; Kumral and Çobanoğlu, 2015a,b; Çobanoğlu and Kumral, 2016; Çobanoğlu and Güldalı, 2017; Akyazı et al, 2017; Soysal and Akyazı, 2018; AltunÇ and Akyazı, 2019; Çobanoğlu et al., 2020; Döker et al., 2020; Ersin et al., 2020). It was classified as Type III Lifestyle-generalist predators by McMurtry et al. (2013).