O. Merkl szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 67. (Budapest, 2006)

FOLIA ENTOMOLOGICA HUNGARICA ROVARTANI KÖZLEMÉNYEK Volume 67 2006 pp. 229-260. Checklist of the Phytoseiidae of Hungary (Acari: Mesostigmata) G. RIPKA Central Service for Plant Protection and Soil Conservation, Plant Protection Department H~]

518 Budapest, P.O. Box 127, Hungary. E-mail: Ripka.Geza@ntksz.ontsz.hu Abstract - Based on records in the literature, a checklist of the Phytoseiidae of Hungary (15 genera and 72 species) is presented, completed by a list of 152 host species of 42 plant families. Keywords - Acari, Phytoseiidae, host plants, Hungary. INTRODUCTION Members of the family Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) inhabit trees, shrubs and herbaceous plants. The family has a world-wide distribution. All species are predaceous upon phytophagous mites, and many of them play an important role in the integrated pest management in orchards (McMURTRY 1983, CHANT 1985). Representatives of Phytoseiidae are the most widespread predatory mites on foliage in the temperate zone (EICKWORT 1983). Most species of the family are generalist predators, and a few are specialists (McMURTRY 1992). The latest world catalogue includes nearly 2250 species (MORAES et al. 2004). In the history of the Hungarian research on phytoseiid mites, after KROPCZYNSKA & JENSER (1968), KoMLOVSZKY (1979, 1984) and KOMLOVSZKY & JENSER(1987ű,£), the activity of BOZAI (1980,1986a,/?, 1987,1993,1996,1997) was significant. He confirmed the occurrence of 46 species in Hungary (BOZAI 1997). In the last two decades several papers have been published on phytoseiid mites of fruit trees and grapevine (MOLNÁR 1986, 1987, 1990a,b, 1992, 1993, 1996, 2003, MOLNÁR & BOLDOG 1989, DELLEI & SZENDREY 1988, 1989, \99\a,b, SÁROSPATAKI et al. 1991,1992, BOGNÁR & JENSER 1996, NÉMETH et al. 2002, 2004). Reports on faunistic surveys by RlPKA (1998, 2000ű) and RIPKA et