Limnolegeria longiseta Motaş, 1928

Pešić, Vladimir, Girão, Dinis, Vergata, Chiara, Da Silva, Luís P. & Ferreira, Sónia, 2025, A new species of Torrenticola ungeri complex (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae), and new water mite records for Portugal, Zootaxa 5717 (1), pp. 1-17 : 15

Limnolegeria longiseta Motaş, 1928

Material examined. Portugal, Viana do Castelo, Melgaço, Mareco, Bridge over Castro Laboreiro river, 41.9854°N, 8.1633°W, 715 m asl., 20 Aug. 2020, leg. Ferreira, Girão & da Silva, 1♂ (DNA barcoded; voucher Id: BGE _00580_ F02) ; Vila Real, Cabril, Fafião river , 41.7097°N, 8.0934°W, 352 m asl., 24 May 2024, leg. Cruz-Oliveira, Ferreira & Girão, 1♀ (DNA barcoded; voucher Id: BGE _00580_H08) .

Remarks: The examined specimens in our study match the description of Limnolegeria longiseta MotaŞ, 1928 , following Di Sabatino et al. (2010), and form a unique BIN (BOLD:AGP6653). The only available sequence of L. longiseta in the BOLD database (SEPTA083-21) belongs to a specimen from Türkiye, which forms a separate BIN (BOLD:AEM5501). The mean K2P genetic distance between the Portuguese and Turkish BINs of L. longiseta was estimated at 20.8%, indicating the need for taxonomic revision of this species.

Distribution. SW France, Italy, Türkiye. New for Portugal.