Atractides (Atractides) inflatipalpis K. Viets, 1950

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

Atractides (Atractides) inflatipalpis K. Viets, 1950

Fig. 3

Material examined.

Burdur • TR 3-2024 Akyayla , rheohelocrenic spring, 37.515774°N, 30.35459°E, 22 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 1 ♂, 2 ♀ (sequenced), 1 ♂, 1 ♀ dissected and slide mounted ( RMNH) .

Remarks.

In regard to the lineated integument and the shape of I-leg and palp, the examined specimens match the description of Atractides inflatipalpis . These specimens forms a unique BIN (BOLD: AGG 3787), with the nearest neighboring BIN being BOLD: AEF 1145, which include one female from Montenegro morphologically assigned by the first author to A. inflatipalpis . The p - distance between these two BINs was estimated at 3.66 %. In the phylogenetic tree, the BIN is positioned as a sister clade of A. fonticolus . From the latter species, A. inflatipalpis differs in more distant S- 1 and S- 2 setae on I-L- 5, a weakly enlarged S- 2, a slenderer I-L- 6 (Fig. 3 A, B ) and the strongly protruding finger-like extension of the male P- 2 (Fig. 3 D ).

Distribution.

Mediterranean ( Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, France, Italy). In Türkiye previously reported from Erzurum Province ( Erman et al. 2010).

Figures

Figure 3. Atractides inflatipalpis K. Viets, 1950 (A, C male B, D – E female [CCDB - 48498 - C 02], Burdur, Akyayla, rheohelocrenic spring: A, B I-L- 5 and I-L- 6 C, D palp, medial view E genital field. Scale bars: 100 μm.