Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki Wainstein, 1958 Typhlodromus recki Wainstein, 1958: 203. Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki.��� Papadoulis et al., 2009: 131. Material examined. France: one female (QAR 102H041) from Thymes sp. (Lamiaceae), 6 Sept 2013. Previous records. Africa: Algeria (Athias-Henriot 1960), Tunisia (Kreiter et al. 2002). Asia: Armenia (Arutun- jan 1970), Azerbaijan (Gadzhiev & Abbasova 1965), Cyprus (Papadoulis et al. 2009), Iran (Rahmani et al. 2010), Israel (Amitai & Swirski 1978), Kazakhstan (Wainstein 1958), Lebanon (Dosse 1967), Syria (Barbar 2016), Turkey (Swirski & Amitai 1982). Europe: Austria (Ragusa & Ragusa 1997), France (Kreiter & Brian 1987), Georgia (Wainstein 1958), Greece (Swirski & Ragusa 1977), Hungary (Bozai 1980), Italy (Castagnoli et al. 1984), Moldova (Kolodochka 1980), Portugal (Ferreira & Carmona 1994), Russia (Wainstein 1958), Slovenia (Kreiter et al. 2020), Ukraine (Livshitz & Kuznetsov 1972). Remarks. The species is distributed in Africa and Europe, and only one specimen was collected from commodity of France. Papadoulis et al. (2009) provided a detailed redescription, and mentioned that the species prefers to inhabit plants belonging to family Lamiaceae; we also found the species from a Lamiaceae plant.
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 pages 314-315, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4542155
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