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

Vladimir Pešić; Milica Jovanović; Amália Espiridião Oliveira; Ana Pedro; Marvin Freira; Maria Manuela Morais

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766

ZooKeys (Mar 2023)

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

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

Affiliations

Vladimir Pešić: University of Montenegro
Milica Jovanović: University of Montenegro
Amália Espiridião Oliveira: University of Évora
Ana Pedro: University of Évora
Marvin Freira: University of Évora
Maria Manuela Morais: Department of Biology, School of Sciences and Technologies

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 1151
pp. 205 – 222

Abstract

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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 marizae sp. nov. is described as new for science.

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ISSN: 1313-2989 (Print); 1313-2970 (Online)
Publisher: Pensoft Publishers
Country of publisher: Bulgaria
LCC subjects: Science: Zoology
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