A second Palaearctic species of the genus Wettina Piersig, 1892 based on morphological and molecular data (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Wettinidae)

Vladimir Pešić; Harry Smit

doi:10.11158/saa.23.4.11

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11 April 2018 A second Palaearctic species of the genus Wettina Piersig, 1892 based on morphological and molecular data (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Wettinidae)

Vladimir Pešić, Harry Smit

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Systematic and Applied Acarology, 23(4):724-732 (2018). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.4.11

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The water mite genus Wettina has a Holarctic distribution and includes only one known species from the Palaearctic, i.e. W. podagrica (Koch, 1837). This species has been considered as a rhitrobiontic and crenophilous species. In the present study we used morphological data and DNA barcoding to describe a new species of the genus, W. lacustris sp. nov. from the glacial Biogradsko Lake in northern Montenegro. The level of COI differentiation between lake population of Wettina lacustris sp. nov. and stream and spring populations of W. podagrica from Western Europe (The Netherlands) was 8.4%. It is likely that Wettina lacustris sp. nov. is more widely distributed in the Palaearctic.

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Vladimir Pešić and Harry Smit "A second Palaearctic species of the genus Wettina Piersig, 1892 based on morphological and molecular data (Acari, Hydrachnidia: Wettinidae)," Systematic and Applied Acarology 23(4), 724-732, (11 April 2018). https://doi.org/10.11158/saa.23.4.11

Received: 14 February 2018; Accepted: 1 April 2018; Published: 11 April 2018

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