The European Zoological Journal (Jul 2024)

Lebertia litoralis sp. nov. a new water mite described on morphological and molecular characters (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia, Lebertiidae)

  • A. Zawal,
  • R. Gerecke,
  • T. Ekrem,
  • E. Stur,
  • M. Szenejko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2024.2409152
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 91, no. 2
pp. 1147 – 1159

Abstract

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An integrative taxonomic approach, combining new morphological data with the analysis of partial COI sequences (DNA-barcodes) is used to describe Lebertia litoralis Zawal & Szenejko sp. nov. from lake habitats in Poland and Norway. The obtained DNA-barcodes of Polish and Norwegian specimens differ only slightly (k = 4.142, Π = 0.006). Morphologically, the new species is most similar to Lebertia porosa Thor, 1900 and L. obscura Thor, 1900, from which it differs by a slenderer shape of the first leg and the position of the distoventral setae of p-4, inserted rather far away from the distal segment edge.http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:27F6FFD0-CA98-4FAD-BC16-58FA654E36ED

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