Mite species of the vegetable crops in Ordu Province with first report of Amblyseius rademacheri Dosse, 1958 (Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) in Turkey

Abstract

Turkey has suitable ecological conditions to grow a wide variety of vegetables. This research was conducted to investigate mite species on cultivated vegetables that include bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.

Species complexes of leaf-inhabiting mites on Prunus laurocerasus L. (Rosaceae) trees in Ordu, Turkey

“…A total of 18 mite species belonging to 3 orders, 6 families and 12 genera were identified as follows: seven species of Phytoseiidae, five Tydeidae, two Tetranychidae, two Stigmaeidae, one for each of Iolinidae and Winterschmidtiidae ( Comments: Transeius wainsteini has been recorded in Denmark, Georgia, Germany, Russia, Iran, Slovakia and Turkey (Demite et al, 2017). In Turkey, it was found on Rosa canina L. (Rosales) in Giresun (Faraji et al, 2011), persimmon trees (Akyazı et al, 2016(Akyazı et al, , 2017, vegetables (Soysal and Akyazı, 2018), stone (Altunç and Akyazı, 2019) and pome (Akyol, 2019) fruit trees in Ordu. It was collected among the Panonychus ulmi (Koch) (Trombidiformes: Tetranychidae) and Aceria sp.…”

“…Amblyseius andersoni (Chant) 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;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).…”

“…Comments: Tetranychus urticae is a highly polyphagous and cosmopolitan species (Zhang, 2003;Migeon et al, 2011). It was reported by many researchers in Turkey as well (Ulusoy et al, 1999;Özman and Çobanoğlu, 2001;İncekulak and Ecevit, 2002;Yanar and Ecevit, 2005;İnal, 2005;Çetin et al, 2006;Ertop, 2006;Kumral and Kovancı, 2007;Kasap et al, 2008;Elma and Alaoğlu, 2008;Güven, 2008;Özsayın, 2012;Satar et al, 2013;Erdoğan, 2013;Çobanoğlu and Kumral, 2014;Gençer-Gökçe, 2015;Kumral and Çobanoğlu, 2015a,b;Kutlu, 2016;Akyazı et al, 2017;Çobanoğlu and Güldalı, 2017;Soysal and Akyazı, 2018;Akyol;Altunç and Akyazı, 2019;Keskin, 2019;Cilbircioğlu and Çobanoğlu, 2020;Çobanoğlu et al, 2020;Erdoğan and Çobanoğlu, 2020). On the other hand, we collected few individuals of T. urticae from each location.…”

“…It was found for the first time in Turkey by Düzgüneş (1963). Later, this species was collected from many provinces by many researchers (Akyazı and Ecevit, 2003;İnal, 2005;Kasap and Çobanoğlu, 2007;Elma and Alaoğlu, 2008;Kasap et al, 2008Kasap et al, , 2013Özsayın, 2012;Satar et al, 2013;Çobanoğlu and Kumral, 2014;Kasap et al, 2014;Gençer-Gökçe, 2015;Kumral and Çobanoğlu, 2015a,b;Akyazı et al, 2016Akyazı et al, , 2017Soysal and Akyazı, 2018;Akyol, 2019;Altunç and Akyazı, 2019;Keskin 2019;Çobanoğlu et al, 2020;Erdoğan and Çobanoğlu, 2020). According to Croft (1994), it preys on eggs and immature stages of European red mite and active stages of apple rust mite.…”

Phytoseiid mites of Slovenia (Acari: Mesostigmata): new records and first description of the male of Amblyseius microorientalis

“…Amblyseius rademacheri was found together with T. urticae on S. melongena in Turkey (Soysal and Akyazi 2018). In previous studies, it was found on various fruits, weeds, forest trees in association with tetranychid and eriophyid mites (Hajizadeh 2007).…”