Sperchon (Hispidosperchon) serapae Boyaci, Gülle & Özkan, 2012

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

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.142699

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B7DFF2E2-C37B-4283-969B-A7648C555734

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15046211

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5DAB7E70-0DB0-5676-B8A2-583FE447BBBE

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scientific name

Sperchon (Hispidosperchon) serapae Boyaci, Gülle & Özkan, 2012
status

 

Sperchon (Hispidosperchon) serapae Boyaci, Gülle & Özkan, 2012

Material examined.

Burdur • TR 2-2024 Akyayla , rheocrenic spring, 37.482956°N, 30.326647°E, 22 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 1 ♀ (sequenced), one palp dissected and slide mounted GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

The single examined female in this study matches the description of Sperchon serapae , a species originally described by Boyaci et al. (2012) from Taurus Mountains in southern Turkey. This specimen forms a unique BIN (BOLD: AGG 3776). The p - distance to its nearest neighboring BIN (BOLD: AAN 0076), which includes specimens of S. violaceus , was estimated at 11.44 %.

Distribution.

Türkiye.