Neumania imitata Koenike, 1908

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 : 51

Neumania imitata Koenike, 1908 - complex

Published records: Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a).

Distribution: Western Palaearctic.

BIN: BOLD:AED4073.

BIN Distribution: Montenegro.

Remarks. Genetic data reveals that BIN: AES6460 which includes the sequence of N. imitatata from Montenegro forms a separate MOTU with a high genetic distance (8.59% p -distance) to the next closest BIN (BOLD:ADF7924) which groups specimens of N. imitata from the Netherlands, indicating that the population from Montenegro possible represents a cryptic species new to science.