Torrenticola meridionalis Sabatino & Cicolani, 1990

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 : 41

Torrenticola meridionalis Sabatino & Cicolani, 1990 - complex

Published records: Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pešić et al. (2024a); Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a); North Macedonia: Pešić et al. (2021b), Królikowska et al. (2024).

Distribution: South Italy, Balkan.

New barcode sequences: Montenegro: BOLD:AEI3402 (HYDME089-22, HYDBH002-22, HYDMN008-24, HYDMN009-24); BOLD:AED7519 (HYDMN010-24, HYDMN013-24, HYDMN043-24, HYDMN673-24, HYDMN674-24).

BINs: BOLD:AED7519, BOLD:AEI3402.

BIN distribution: BOLD:AED7519 (North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Poland), BOLD:AEI3402 ( Austria, Poland, Romania, Montenegro).

Remarks: Pešić et al. (2021b) showed that populations keying out as T. meridionalis in Di Sabatino et al. (2016), a species originally described from Italy, include at least three divergent barcode clusters, one of which (BOLD: AEK9662) is restricted to populations from Italy and two other widely distributed haplogroups, BOLD:AED7519 and BOLD:AEI3402, respectively, which comprise populations from the Balkans.