Limnesia (Limnesia) koenikei Piersig, 1894

Pešić, Vladimir, Zawal, Andrzej, Ferreira, Sónia, Benitez-Bosco, Laura, Cruz-Oliveira, Ana, Girão, Dinis, Padilha, Adriana, Turaccio, Paolo, Rossini, Samantha, Ballini, Lorenzo, Staffoni, Giorgia, Fratini, Sara, Ciofi, Claudio, Iannucci, Alessio, Ekrem, Torbjørn & Stur, Elisabeth, 2024, DNA barcode library of Portuguese water mites, with the descriptions of two new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia), ZooKeys 1217, pp. 119-171 : 119-171

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.1217.131730

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:921FBCB0-D6B1-4E61-80F2-DE30167984B0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14019483

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/065C2D53-D9CB-598C-991F-7F8630ECA192

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scientific name

Limnesia (Limnesia) koenikei Piersig, 1894
status

 

Limnesia (Limnesia) koenikei Piersig, 1894

Material examined.

Portugal, Guarda: • Seia, Covão do Forno , 40.369°N, 7.638°W, 1574 m a.s.l., 19 Aug. 2023, leg. Ferreira, Benitez-Bosco & Padilha, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (sequenced) GoogleMaps ; • Seia, Rio Alva, Central hidroelétrica de Ponte dos Jugais , river, 40.385°N, 7.706°W, 555 m a.s.l., 24 Aug. 2023, leg. Ferreira, Benitez-Bosco & Padilha, 1 ♂ (sequenced) GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

The sequences obtained from the specimens from Portugal cluster within BOLD: ADF 6559, which includes one specimen from the Netherlands assigned to L. koenikei . The p - distance from the latter BIN and its nearest neighbor BOLD: ACS 0816, which includes specimens of L. koenikei from Norway and the Netherlands, was estimated at 2.09 %.

Distribution.

Holarctic; widely distributed in Europe but here reported for the first time for Portugal.