Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki

K, Marie Stephane Tixier, Douin, Martial, Rocio, Oliva, Gonzalez, Lucia, Pount, Benjamin & KreiterK, Serge, 2020, Distribution and biological features of Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki (Acari: Phytoseiidae) onTetranychus urticae, T. evansi (Acari: Tetranychidae) and Aculops lycopersici (Acari: Eriophyidae), Acarologia 60 (4), pp. 684-697 : 687

Distribution of Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki

Typhlodromus (A.) recki is reported from 22 countries, mainly in the Southern West­Palearctic region (Figure 2) under Mediterranean climate. It is reported 421 times on 213 plant species, belonging to 138 genera and 51 families. It is recorded less than 5 times on 37 plant families, and the highest record rates were observed on six plant families (56% of reports): Asteraceae (61 reports), Lamiaceae (50 reports), Rosaceae (40 reports), Boraginaceae (36 reports), Fabaceae

(26 reports) and Solanaceae (25 reports). This might suggest close relationships between this species and those plants. However, because of no close phylogenetic relationship among these plant families, such occurrence seems not related to evolutionary aspects, as also stated by Tixier (2018) and Tixier et al. (2020). Typhlodromus (A.) recki is reported less than 5 times on

123 plant genera. The highest number of reports (19% of total reports) is observed on species of the genera Solanum (19 reports), Echium (17 reports), Vitis (14 reports), Prunus (12 reports) and Salvia (11 reports). Again, these genera are not phylogenetically close, and T. (A.) recki occurrence seems not related to plant support evolution. Those data provide elements on the “probability” to retrieve T. (A.) recki on some plant species, although we are aware that the recorded occurrences do not exactly reflect the real distribution.