Lebertia fimbriata Thor, 1899

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 : 25

Lebertia fimbriata Thor, 1899

Published records: North Macedonia: Pešić et al. (2021b), Królikowska et al. (2024).

Distribution: West Palaearctic.

New barcode sequences: Montenegro: BOLD:ADF5657 (HYDMN229-24), AES5822 (HYDME085-22, HYDMN618-24), BOLD:AGH7455 (HYDMN619-24, HYDMN620-24, HYDMN625-24, HYDMN626-24, HYDMN657-24, HYDMN371-24); Greece: BOLD:ADP3144 (BSNTN1985-24)

BINs: BOLD:AES5822, BOLD:AEI4632, BOLD:AGH7456, BOLD:AGH7455, BOLD:ADF5657, BOLD: ADP3144.

BIN distribution: BOLD:AES5822 ( Montenegro), BOLD:AEI4632 (North Macedonia), BOLD:AGH7455 ( Montenegro), BOLD:AGH7456 ( Montenegro, Romania), BOLD:ADF5657 ( the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, France, Montenegro), BOLD:ADP3144 ( Norway, Austria, Germany Greece, Russia).

Remarks: As already mentioned by Gerecke et al. (2022), L. fimbriata sensu Gerecke (2009) includes at least three distinctly diverging clusters indicating the need for molecular and morphological re-definition of this species including numerous species listed as synonyms in Gerecke (2009).