Mideopsis roztoczensis Biesiadka & Kowalik, 1979

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 : 57

Mideopsis roztoczensis Biesiadka & Kowalik, 1979

Published records: Croatia: Pozojević et al. (2019a); Bosnia and Herzegovina: Pešić et al. (2023d); Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2019b, 2021a, 2023d), Zawal et al. (2020); Serbia: Pešić et al. (2021b).

Rejected records: North Macedonia: Królikowska et al. (2024).

New barcode sequences: Bosnia and Herzegovina: BOLD:ACI1492 (HYDMN470-24, HYDMN471-24, HYDMN472-24). Montenegro: BOLD:AEA2936 (HYDMN463-24, HYDMN458-24, HYDMN459-24, HYDMN460-24, HYDMN461-24, HYDMN462-24, HYDMN368-24, HYDMN684-24, HYDMN685-24, HYDMN686-24, HYDMN687-24, HYDMN688-24, HYDMN182-24, HYDMN183-24, HYDMN184-24), ACI1492 (HYDMN210-24, HYDMN211-24, HYDMN212-24, HYDMN246-24, HYDMN247-24, HYDMN248- 24, HYDMN253-24, HYDMN261-24, HYDMN272-24, HYDMN273-24, HYDMN274-24, HYDMN337- 24, HYDMN386-24, HYDMN387-24, HYDMN388-24, HYDMN389-24, HYDMN470-24, HYDMN471-24, HYDMN472-24, HYDMN548-24). Greece: BOLD:ACI1492 (BSNTN1986-24).

BINs: BOLD:ACI1492, BOLD:AEN6785, BOLD:AEA2936.

Distribution: Palaearctic.

Remarks: This highly variable species includes at least three BINS present in the Balkans: widely distributed BOLD: ACI1492, known from Montenegro, Norway, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Türkiye, Serbia and Cyprus, BOLD: AEN6785 known from Türkiye, Serbia, and Northern Europe ( Norway), and BOLD:AEA2936, known from Serbia, Belgium and Montenegro (this study). Some BINs were found together at the same locality (e.g., BOLD:ACI1492 and BOLD:AEN 6785 in Katušnica River in Serbia). Recently, Pešić et al. (2023d) who studied a species-level phylogeny of the genus Mideopsis in Europe and recognized Mideopsis roztoczensis as a single species.