Hygrobates norvegicus (Thor, 1897)

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 : 49

Hygrobates norvegicus (Thor, 1897) - complex

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

Distribution: Central, southern and southeastern Europe

BIN: BOLD:ACH7323.

BIN Distribution: the Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Montenegro, Slovakia, Austria, Romania, Poland, Russia.

Remarks: Blattner et al. (2019) reported the presence of two distinct clades (“ Hygrobates cf. norvegicus A/B”) within European populations of H. norvegicus . Recently, Gerecke & Stur (2025) based on morphological and molecular analysis of material from Norway showed that “ H. cf. norvegicus A” sensu Blattner et al. 2019 (BIN, BOLD:ACH7323) is genetically identical with H. norvegicus .