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

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

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766

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

Zookeys. 2023 Mar 1:1151:205-222. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Vladimir Pešić¹, Milica Jovanović¹, Amália Espiridião Oliveira², Ana Pedro², Marvin Freira², Maria Manuela Morais^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.
² Mediterranean Institute for Agriculture, Environment and Development (MED), CHANGE - Global Change and Sustainability Institute, Institute for Advanced Studies and Research, Universidade de Évora, Pólo da Mitra, Ap. 94, 7006-554, Évora, Portugal.
³ Water Laboratory, University of Évora, P.I.T.E. Rua da Barba Rala No. 1, 7005-345 Évora, Portugal.

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, Torrenticolahispanica (Lundblad, 1941) and A.cultellatus (K. Viets, 1930) were discovered more than 80 years after they were first described, and Atractidesmarizaesp. nov. is described as new for science.

Keywords: New records; new species; systematics; taxonomy.

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