Predatory mites (Acari: Mesostigmata: Phytoseiidae) intercepted from samples imported to Taiwan, with description of a new species Author Liao, Jhih-Rong Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan Author Ho, Chyi-Chen Taiwan Acari Research Laboratory, Taichung City, Taiwan Author Ko, Chiun-Cheng Department of Entomology, National Taiwan University, Taipei City 10617, Taiwan & Kocc 2501 @ ntu. edu. tw; http: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 8815 - 3981 occ2501@ntu.edu.tw text Zootaxa 2021 2021-02-15 4927 3 301 330 journal article 8089 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.3.1 b1904bd2-efa8-42d8-9b89-22fc22e5b5b2 1175-5326 4542155 9A141A50-151D-4261-9A62-FD300B521E86 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.