Mesobates forcipatus Thor, 1901

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 : 49-50

Mesobates forcipatus Thor, 1901 ( Fig. 8G )

Distribution: Northern Europe, one site recorded from Greece.

New barcode sequences: Greece: BSNTN1966-24, BSNTN1967-24.

BIN: BOLD:ACT3796.

BIN Distribution: Norway, Greece.

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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.