Hygrobates calabricus, a new species of water mite (Acariformes, Hydrachnidia, Hygrobatidae) from Italy, based on morphological and molecular evidence

Vladimir Pešić, Tom Goldschmidt
2022 Ecologica Montenegrina  
In the present study we used an integrative taxonomic approach that combines morphological and DNA barcoding data to describe a new species of the H. nigromaculatus-complex, Hygrobates calabricus sp. nov. from Calabria, Italy. The average K2P-distance between DNA-barcode sequences of H. calabricus sp. nov. and its closest relative H. setosus Besseling, 1942 was estimated at 8.7±1.2%.
doi:10.37828/em.2022.50.11 fatcat:tzqgy75ninf3rbuez4wt7iyadi