Hygrobates (Hygrobates) calliger Piersig, 1896

Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Checklist of the water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Korea, with description of one new subgenus and two new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 1 (4), pp. 204-230 : 212

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.37828/em.2014.1.29
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8029492
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scientific name	Hygrobates (Hygrobates) calliger Piersig, 1896
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Records from Korea: Gangwon Province – “ Hygrobates heteropalpis “ Chung and Kim (1991) .

Habitat: Rhitrobiont.

Remarks: Matsumoto et al. (2005) synonymised with “a little doubt” Hygrobates heteropalpis Imamura, 1954 with H. calliger . However, they mentioned that the P2 projection of the European specimens of H. calliger tends to be broader than that of either H. calliger or H. heteropalpis from Japan. The latter feature could be a good reason for reanimating H. heteropalpis . Application of molecular techniques could be helpful for understanding the taxonomic position of the populations from Japan and Korea assigned to H. calliger .

Distribution: Palaearctic.