New records of water mites of the family Torrenticolidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with descriptions of two new species from Nanshih River system in Taiwan and redescription of Torrenticola ussuriensis (Sokolow, 1940) from the Russian Far East

By

Pesic, Vladimir
Semenchenko, Ksenia
Chatterjee, Tapas
Yam, Rita S. W.
Chan, Benny K.K.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2011

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

116

Pages

1-14

Subjects

Acari , Nanshih River system , new species , running waters , Taiwan , Water mites

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.116.1253

 

Abstract

New records of torrenticolid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Nanshih River, Taiwan, are presented. Two new species are described: Torrenticola nanshihensis and T. taiwanicus; the latter species is compared with T. ussuriensis (Sokolow, 1940), a poorly known species which is re-described based on a new material from the Russian Far East; Monatractides cf. circuloides (Halík, 1930) is reported for the first time for Taiwan.