Amblyseius bryophilus Karg, 1970

Akyazi, Rana, Soysal, Mete & Altunç, Yunus Emre, 2022, Species complexes of leaf-inhabiting mites on Prunus laurocerasus L. (Rosaceae) trees in Ordu, Turkey, Acarological Studies 4 (1), pp. 9-20 : 12

Amblyseius bryophilus Karg

Material examined: 1♀ (Altınordu, 21.07.2015) , 1♀ (Altınordu, 31.07.2015) , 1♀ ( Kabadüz , 09.08.2016) .

Comments: Amblyseius bryophilus was firstly recorded from Germany by Karg (1970). It is also known in France, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, and Turkey ( Demite et al., 2017). In Turkey, A. bryophilus was recorded for the first time from Rize province by Döker et al. (2014a). This species was also found on pome fruit trees in Ordu (Akyol, 2019) and Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabaceae) in Rize ( Döker et al., 2020). Amblyseius spp. were classified as generalist predators-Type III lifestyle ( Croft et al., 2004).