Hygrobates foreli (Lebert, 1874)

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 : 47-48

Hygrobates foreli (Lebert, 1874)

Published records: Croatia: Pozojević et al. (2019a); Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a).

Distribution: Palaearctic.

BIN: BOLD:AEE3281.

BIN distribution: Montenegro, Romania, Austria, Poland.

Remarks: Genetic data indicate that populations keying to H. foreli in Gerecke et al. (2016) includes two distinct clusters, represented by BOLD:AEE3281 and BOLD:AAM5295 (shared by Canada and Norway), respectively with a genetic distance estimated at 8.51% p -distance, indicating the need for molecular and morphological re-definition of this species.