Hygrobates calliger Piersig, 1896

Pešić, Vladimir, Bankowska, Aleksandra, Goldschmidt, Tom, Hårsaker, Karstein, Jovanović, Milica, Kaitetzidou, Elisavet, Krakowiak, Maja, Kozłowska, Aleksandra, Michaloudi, Evangelia, Michoński, Grzegorz, Miliša, Marko, Pozojević, Ivana, Rewicz, Tomasz, Rusiniak, Oliwia, Sobolak, Karolina, Szućko, Izabela, Stryjecki, Robert, Stur, Elisabeth, Szlauer-Łukaszewska, Agnieszka, Szenejko, Magdalena & Zawal, Andrzej, 2025, Checklist of water mites from the Balkan Peninsula: second supplement, new DNA barcodes and description of a new species, Zootaxa 5676 (1), pp. 1-74 : 47

Hygrobates calliger Piersig, 1896

Published records: Montenegro: Croatia: Žeželj Vidoša et al. (2023); Pešić et al. (2021a); Greece: Pešić et al. (2021b).

Distribution: Palaearctic.

Remarks: Recently, using an integrative approach, Pešić et al. (2022a) showed that H. calliger -like species represent a species complex consisting of at least six distinct but previously overlooked lineages. Regarding the spatial pattern, some of these lineages (e.g., H. calliger Clade 1, -2 and- 5 sensu Pešić et al. 2022) have a wider distribution, while other lineages (e.g., H. calliger Clade 3 from Calabria and H. tyrrhenicus Pešić & Smit, 2022 from Corsica) are apparently more restricted.