Oxus (Oxus) aff. angustipositus K. Viets, 1908

Pesic, Vladimir, Jovanovic, Milica, Espiridiao Oliveira, Amalia, Pedro, Ana, Freira, Marvin & Morais, Maria Manuela, 2023, New records of water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Portugal revealed by DNA barcoding, with the description of Atractides marizae sp. nov., ZooKeys 1151, pp. 205-222 : 205

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1151.100766

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6F3BA97A-4EB4-47B4-8ADD-4375417D9C78

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C2B0EEDA-2D66-594E-99D2-11DADC8ABE1A

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scientific name

Oxus (Oxus) aff. angustipositus K. Viets, 1908
status

 

Oxus (Oxus) aff. angustipositus K. Viets, 1908

Material examined.

Portugal, Porto, Silveirinhos stream, 41.1727°N, 8.5007°W, 25.v.2022, leg. Jovanović, 1♂, 2♀ (sequenced; Table 1 View Table 1 ) GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

The Portuguese specimen molecularly analyzed in this study matches the description of O. angustipositus . These individuals form a unique BIN (BOLD:AET9442), with the nearest neighboring BIN being OLD:AED9576, which consists of a specimen from Lake Ohrid, North Macedonia. The p -distance between the specimens from Portugal and GenBank O. angustipositus (Montenegro; OL870273, OL870215, OL870142, OL870101) is 8.7-9.3%; this demonstrates the need for taxonomic revision of the O. angustipositus complex for identifying possibly undescribed cryptic species.

Distribution.

Western Palaearctic.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Trombidiformes

Family

Hygrobatidae

Genus

Oxus