Torrenticolid water mites from Korea and the Russian Far East

By

Pesic, Vladimir
Semenchenko, Ksenia
Lee, Wonchoel 1966-

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2013

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

299

Pages

21-48

Subjects

Acari , Hydrachnidia , new records , new species , running waters

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.299.5272

 

Abstract

New records of water mites of the family Torrenticolidae Piersig, 1902 (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from streams in South Korea and the Russian Far East are presented. Detailed descriptions or redescrptions are provided for eight species of the genera Torrenticola Piersig, 1896 and Monatractides K.Viets 1926. Two species are described as new to science: Torrenticola kimichungi sp. n. and Monatractides abei sp. n. Five species are reported as first records from Korea: Torrenticola brevirostris (Halbert, 1911); T. dentifera Wiles, 1991; T. recentis Tuzovskij, 2003; T. ussuriensis (Sokolow, 1934); and T. turkestanica (Sokolow, 1926). Torrenticola nipponica (Enami, 1940) is reported for the first time from Russia.