Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki (Wainstein)

Tixier, Marie-Stephane, Auger, Philippe, Migeon, Alain, Douin, Martial, Fossoud, Amandine, Navajas, Maria & Arabuli, Tea, 2021, Integrated taxonomy supports the identification of some species of Phytoseiidae (Acari: Mesostigmata) from Georgia, Acarologia 61 (4), pp. 824-844 : 836

Typhlodromus (Anthoseius) recki (Wainstein)

Typhlodromus recki Wainstein 1958: 203 .

Typhlodromus (Typhlodromus) recki, Chant 1959: 62 .

Typhlodromella recki, Muma 1961: 299 .

Amblydromella recki, Moraes et al. 1986: 171 .

Amblydromella (Aphanoseia) recki , Denmark & Welbourn 2002: 308.

Specimens examined. At Telavi (5 kms West from Telavi) (41.9283° N, 45.4241° E): 3

♀♀ and 1 ♂ on Salvia verticillata L. ( Lamiaceae ).

Previous records. Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Caucasus Region, Cyprus, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Lebanon, Moldova, Morocco, Portugal, Russia, Slovenia, Spain ( Ferragut 2018), Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine.

Remarks. This species was known from Georgia, reported by Wainstein (1958) on Salvia nemorosa L. ( Lamiaceae ), and is commonly found in the West Palearctic region, especially on plants of the family Lamiaceae ( Tixier et al. 2020a) .

Two DNA sequences (one of the CytB and of the COI fragment) were obtained. CytB genetic distance between the Georgian specimen and the 54 specimens collected in South of France and Italy was 5.7% (4.7% – 14%) (Tixier et al. 2020b). Genetic distances among the COI sequences, ranged from 2 to 2.2% between the Georgian specimen and the four reported in Genbank ( MT828361 –364, from France and Italy). This differentiation can be due to population isolation or result from adaptation to climatic conditions (Tixier et al. 2020b; Queiroz et al. 2021).