New records of the water mite genera Atractides Koch and Sperchon Kramer from the Balkan, with the description of one new species

VLADIMIR M. PESIC

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.168.1.1

Issue: Vol. 168 No. 1: 24 Mar. 2003

Type: Article

Published: 2003-03-24

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.168.1.1

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**New records of the water mite genera Atractides Koch and Sperchon Kramer from the Balkan, with the description of one new species**

VLADIMIR M. PESIC⁺⁻

Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Crna Gora, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Crna Gora

Acari water mites Sperchon Atractides Balkan peninsula

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Abstract

Four water mite species of the genera Atractides and Sperchon (Acari: Hydrachnidia) are reported from Serbia and Crna Gora, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Bulgaria. Sperchon vesnae is described as a new species; first description are given of the female of Atractides longisetus Pesic, 2002; first records from the Balkan peninsula are given of Sperchon longissimus Viets, 1920, and Atractides cf. lunipes Lundblad, 1956. The latter is a rare water mite species previously known only from the French Pyrenees.

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