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

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...

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Published in:ZooKeys
Main Authors: Vladimir Pešić, Milica Jovanović, Amália Espiridião Oliveira, Ana Pedro, Marvin Freira, Maria Manuela Morais
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023-03-01
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/100766/download/pdf/
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Summary: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.
ISSN:1313-2970

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