Monatractides stadleri (Walter, 1921)

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 : 38

Monatractides stadleri (Walter, 1921) – complex ( Fig. 8A )

Published records: Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a), Zawal et al. (2020); Greece: Pešić et al. (2021b).

Distribution: Western Palaearctic.

New barcode sequences: Montenegro: BOLD:AED3802 (HYDMN403-24, HYDMN404-24, HYDMN413- 24, HYDMN050-24, HYDMN051-24, HYDMN068-24, HYDMN345-24, HYDMN346-24, HYDMN347-24, HYDMN357-24, HYDMN279-24, HYDMN191-24, HYDMN165-24, HYDMN215-24, HYDMN216-24). Greece: BOLD:AED3802 (BSNTN1956-24), BOLD:AGC6044 (BSNTN1921-24).

BINs: BOLD:AED3802, BOLD:AGC6044.

BIN distribution: BOLD:AED3802 ( Montenegro, North Macedonia, Greece, Poland); BOLD:AGC6044 ( Greece, Türkiye).

Remarks. As emphasized Pešić & Smit (2023), genetic data revealed that European populations assigned to M. stadleri includes several distinct clusters, indicating the need for molecular and morphological re-definition of this species.

Figures

FIGURE 8. Photographs of selected water mite species.A—Monatractides stadleri ♀ [BGE_00247_E08]; B—Limnesia walteri ♀ [BGE_00247_F11]; C—Lebertia algeriensis ♀ [BGE_00247_B11]. D—Lebertia variolata ♀ [BGE_00247_E09]. E— Hygrobates gr. trigonicus ♂ [BGE_00247_F05]. F—Atractides gr. robustus ♀ [BGE_00247_G03]. G—Mesobates forcipatus ♀, [BGE_00247_F07]. H—Mideopsis milankovici ♂ [BGE_00247_F12]. Scale bar 250 µm. Photos by Aina M. Aspaas, NTNU University Museum.