Amblyseius tsugawai Ehara, 1959 Amblyseius tsugawai Ehara, 1959: 290. Material examined. Japan: one female (QAR 101H028) from Perilla frutescens (Lamiaceae), 28 Sept 2011. Previous records. Asia: China (Zhu & Chen 1980), Japan (Ehara 1959), South Korea (Ryu & Kim 1998). Remarks. This species is distributed in East Asia, especially Japan, and is a major predator of spider mites in orchards in Japan. It is considered as Type III generalist predators (Funayama & Sonoda 2014). The food sources of the species ranges from spider mites, thrips, whiteflies, pyralid moths, and pollens (Yang et al. 2019).
Published as part of 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, pp. 301-330 in Zootaxa 4927 (3) on page 305, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4542155
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