Atractides (s. str.) latipalpis Motaş & Tanasachi, 1946

Gerecke, Reinhard, 2021, The water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) in Italy, Zootaxa 5009 (1), pp. 1-85 : 29

Atractides (s. str.) latipalpis Motaş & Tanasachi, 1946

(Figs 28 C-D)

Material examined: Basilicata: I 1124 Int, 1/1/0 slide; Calabria: I 448 Int, 0/1/0 slide; I 1111, 1/0/0 slide; Lazio: I 1289, 1/0/0 slide; Lombardia: I TG 13-06a, 0/1/0; Reggio Emilia: I 1376 Int, 0/1/0 slide; Sicilia: Northern Mountains. I 512 Int 1, 1/0/0 slide; I 532 Int 1, 1/0/0 slide; I 1138 Int, 1/0/0 slide; I dp 86, 0/1/0 [? – without I-LL] slide. 10 sites, 11 specimens .

Previously published records from Italy: Liguria ( Gerecke & Di Sabatino 2013).

Habitat: Hyporheobiont, in low to middle order streams at low and middle altitude, 120-1350 m, mostly found in the interstitial, one record each from stream benthos and a rheocrene.

Distribution: Southern and Central Europe (incl. British Isles), scattered.