Sperchon brevirostris Koenike, 1895

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 : 35

Sperchon brevirostris Koenike, 1895 - complex

Distribution: Europe, islands of Atlantic and norther seas.

Published records: Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a); North Macedonia: Pešić et al. (2021b)

BINs: BOLD:ACP6107, BOLD:AED3857.

BIN distribution: BOLD:AED3857 ( Montenegro, North Macedonia); BOLD:AED3857 ( Germany, Montenegro, Norway).

Remarks: Recently Pešić et al. (2025b) showed that S. brevirostris populations include several distinctly diverging clusters, indicating the need for molecular and morphological re-definition of this species.