Atractides nodipalpis Thor, 1899

Pesic, Vladimir, Saboori, Alireza, Asadi, Mahdieh & Vafaei, Reza, 2004, Studies on water mites of the family Hygrobatidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) from Iran, I. The water mite genus Atractides Koch, with the description of five new species, Zootaxa 495, pp. 1-40 : 32

Atractides nodipalpis Thor, 1899

New records: IR11 Mazandaran Province, Ramsar, Safa stream near Gavramak village (37°14' 2 N 49°9' 9E), 241 m asl., 22 ºC, 19.07.2003, leg. Pesic, Asadi, Saboori & Akrami (0/1/0); IR43 Fars Province, Tang Boragh stream, 2 km N from Tang Boragh village (30°38'18 N 52°3' 10E), 2188 m asl., 0 6.08.2003, leg. Pesic (0/1/0).

Previous records from the study area: Kerman Province (Sirch) — Asadi et al. (2003a).

Distribution: Palaearctic. At present, the large number of uncertain subspecies of A.nodipalpis described during the past 100 years complicates the analysis of its geographical distribution ( Gerecke 2003).