Hygrobates (Rivobates) quanaticola Schwoerbel & Sepasgozarian, 1976

Pešić, Vladimir, Zawal, Andrzej, Gülle, Pınar, Gülle, İskender, Jovanović, Milica, Bańkowska, Aleksandra, Musielak, Stanisław & Smit, Harry, 2025, Water mite diversity from southwestern Türkiye through the lens of the DNA barcodes, with the description of one new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia), ZooKeys 1232, pp. 205-236 : 205-236

Hygrobates (Rivobates) quanaticola Schwoerbel & Sepasgozarian, 1976

Material examined.

Burdur • TR 1-2024 Kuzköy , spring, 37.55402°N, 30.440313°E, 22 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle 3 ♀ (sequenced) • TR 14-2024 Dereköy , rheocrenic spring, 37.42846°N, 29.809637°E, 24 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 1 ♀ (sequenced) • TR 26-2024 Kestel , canal with fast-flowing water, 37.429718°N, 30.399193°E, 27 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 1 ♀ (sequenced) .

Remarks.

The sequences obtained from the specimens assigned morphologically to H. quanaticola are clustered within two BINs, i. e. BOLD: AGG 3789, which includes three specimens from this study, and BOLD: AEM 9575, which in addition to two specimens from this study, includes three specimens from Burdur published in Pešić et al. (2023 c). The p - distance between these two BINs was estimated at 2.57 %.

Distribution.

Iran, Türkiye.