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Notes: Hemisarcoptes coccophagus Meyer, a mite predaceous on armoured scale insects, was sampled both as a predator in colonies of Parlatoria spp. and as a "traveller" on the Coccinellid beetle Chilocorus bipustulatus (L.). Scale species mentioned include Aonidiella aurantii, Chrysomphalus aonidum, Hemiberlesia lataniae, Lepidosaphes beckii, Parlatoria cinerea, P. oleae, P. pergandii and Rugaspidiotus tamaricicola.