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Torrenticola (Torrenticola) thori

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b. b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro & CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal & Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b. b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro & BIOPOLIS Program in Genomics, Biodiversity and Land Planning, CIBIO, Campus de Vairão, 4485 - 661 Vairão, Vila do Conde, Portugal
  • 2. Department of Biology, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy

Description

Torrenticola (Torrenticola) thori (Halbert, 1944)

Material examined. Portugal, Viana do Castelo, Monção, Podame, near bridge, 42.0351°N, 8.3840°W, 40 m asl, 19 Aug. 2024, leg. Ferreira, Girão & da Silva, 1♀, dissected and slide mounted (DNA barcoded, voucher Id: BGE _ 00580_F07; RMNH).

Remarks. The Portuguese specimen keyed out to T. thori following Di Sabatino et al. (2010), form a unique BIN (BOLD:AFI1872).

Distribution. Central, southern and western Europe. New for Portugal.

Notes

Published as part of Pešić, Vladimir, Girão, Dinis, Vergata, Chiara, Da Silva, Luís P. & Ferreira, Sónia, 2025, A new species of Torrenticola ungeri complex (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae), and new water mite records for Portugal, pp. 1-17 in Zootaxa 5717 (1) on page 15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5717.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/17889975

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BGE, RMNH
Event date
2024-08-19
Verbatim event date
2024-08-19
Scientific name authorship
Halbert
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Trombidiformes
Family
Torrenticolidae
Genus
Torrenticola
Species
thori
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Torrenticola (Torrenticola) thori (Halbert, 1944) sec. Pešić, Girão, Vergata, Silva & Ferreira, 2025

References

  • Di Sabatino, A., Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T. & Smit, H. (2010) Acari: Hydrachnidia II. In: Gerecke, R. (Ed.), Chelicerata: Acari II. Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Vol. 7. 2-2. Elsevier Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 1 - 234. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-8274-2266-8_1