New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Portugal revealed by DNA barcoding, with the description of Atractides marizae sp. nov.

By

Pesic, Vladimir
Jovanović, Milica
Espiridião Oliveira, Amália
Pedro, Ana
Freira, Marvin
Morais, Manuela

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2023

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

1151

Pages

205--222

Subjects

new records , new species , systematics , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766

 

Abstract

This study presents the first results of DNA barcoding of water mites from Portugal. DNA barcodes were recovered from 19 water mite specimens morphologically assigned to eight species, seven of them newly reported from Portugal. Two species, Torrenticola hispanica (Lundblad, 1941) and A. cultellatus (K. Viets, 1930) were discovered more than 80 years after they were first described, and Atractides marizaesp. nov. is described as new for science.