Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki Wainstein, 1958

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Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki Wainstein, 1958

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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.