Lebertia inaequalis (Koch, 1837)

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 inaequalis (Koch, 1837) - complex

Published records: Montenegro: Pešić et al. (2021a, 2019b), Zawal et al. (2020); North Macedonia: Pešić et al. (2021b), Królikowska et al. (2024).

Distribution: Palaearctic.

New barcode sequences: Greece: BOLD:ADF6223 (BSNTN1931-24, BSNTN1944-24, BSNTN1945-24, BSNTN1905-24).

BINs: BOLD:ADF6223, BOLD:AEF5683, BOLD:AEF2742.

BIN distribution: BOLD:ADF6223 ( the Netherlands, Montenegro, Poland, Germany, Greece, Russia); BOLD: AEF5683 (North Macedonia), BOLD:AEF2742 ( Montenegro).

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