Oxus angustipositus

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 : 27

Oxus angustipositus K, Viets, 1908 - complex

Published records: Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a), Zawal et al. (2020); North Macedonia: Pešić et al. (2021b); “ Oxus ovalis (Müller, 1776) ” Królikowska et al. (2024).

Distribution: Western Palaearctic.

New barcode sequences: Montenegro: HYDMN438-24, HYDMN439-24, HYDMN440-24.

BIN: BOLD:AEB9099.

BIN distribution: Norway, Montenegro, North Macedonia.

Remarks: Recently, the study of Pešić et a l. (2023e) revealed the presence of at least two genetically different clusters of this species in Europe, indicating the need for revision of this complex.