Tetranychidae of China: a review of progress, with a checklist

Abstract

This paper reviews the research on the family Tetranychidae in China, with an updated checklist of 212 species belonging to 28 genera. Major contributions to the Chinese fauna of the Tetranychidae were made by Wang Hui-Fu and her colleagues who discovered and described about 40 species, Ma En-Pei  and Yuan Yi-Lan who discovered over 30 species, and Tseng Yi-Hsiung and his co-authors who added over 20 new species. There have been a lot of studies on the biology and control of the spider mites in China and recent studies are briefly reviewed.