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Hydrozetes confervae

  • 1. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7005 - 6462
  • 2. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Aquamuseu do Rio Minho, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 4920 - 290, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5513 - 6875
  • 3. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Aquamuseu do Rio Minho, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 4920 - 290, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2294 - 6174
  • 4. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, rua do Campo Alegre s / n, 4169 - 007 Porto, Portugal & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 3736 - 5743
  • 5. Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR), University of Porto, Terminal de Cruzeiros do Porto de Leixões, Avenida General Norton de Matos, s / n, 4450 - 208, Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal. & Aquamuseu do Rio Minho, Vila Nova de Cerveira, 4920 - 290, Portugal. & https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5399 - 2483

Description

Hydrozetes confervae (Schrank, 1781)

Synonyms: Acarus confervae Schrank, 1781 (original designation); Hydrozetes terrestris Berlese, 1910

Type material: Unknown, possibly lost.

Type locality: Austria (Schrank 1781).

Geographical distribution: Holarctic (Davids et al. 2006), remarkably Europe (GBIF 2022).

Distribution in Portugal: North: International Minho River (Cantallo et al. 2021), in Vila Nova de Cerveira, and Valença (São Pedro da Torre) municipalities.

Material examined: 1 undetermined sex adult; Vila Nova de Cerveira, Portugal; 41º56′12.768″N, 8º45′9.108″W; October 2019; coll. by C. Antunes and E. Martins; catalogue number NatMIP -CAOr-0003.

1 undetermined sex adult; São Pedro da Torre, Portugal; 41º59′27″N, 8º40′50.76″W; 11 May 2020; coll by C. Antunes and E. Martins; catalogue number NatMIP-CAOr-0005.

Ecological notes: In lakes, ponds and slow-moving waters, as well as present in duckweed Lemna spp. (Davids et al. 2006); found also in the main river stretch and in the guts of European flounder P. flesus.

Remarks: First record mentioned for Portugal (Cantallo et al. 2021), and also represents the first occurrence for Northern Europe.

Hydrozetes lemnae (Coggi, 1897)

Synonym: Notaspis lemnae Coggi, 1897 (original designation)

Type material: Possibly not deposited at scientific collection.

Type locality: Italy, in the area around Bologna, Italy (Coggi 1897).

Geographical distribution: Semi-cosmopolitan (Palaearctic, Nearctic, Ethiopic, Eastern, Australian, and Neotropical geographical zones) (Subías 2018).

Distribution in Portugal: North: International Minho River (Cantallo et al. 2021), in the tributary section “Rio Mouro, Ponte do Curto” (Monção municipality, 42º4′29.27″N, 8º23′39.12″W).

Material examined: 1 undetermined sex adult; Ponte do Curto, Portugal, 42º4′29.27″N, 8º23′39.12″W; September 2020; coll. by Aquamuseu Team; NatMIP-CAOr-0011.

Ecological notes: Freshwater, feeding on submerged plant fragments (Pérez-Íñigo 1997). Present in macrophytes (Cantallo et al. 2021).

Remarks: First record mentioned for Portugal (Cantallo et al. 2021).

Notes

Published as part of Cantallo, Harold, Gomes, Nuno, Antunes, Carlos, Martins, Duarte & Costa, Dimítri De Araújo, 2022, Checklist of water mites from mainland Portugal and its archipelagos, pp. 336-370 in Zootaxa 5213 (4) on pages 338-339, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7381432

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2020-05-11
Verbatim event date
2020-05-11
Scientific name authorship
Schrank
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Family
Hydrozetidae
Genus
Hydrozetes
Species
confervae
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrozetes confervae (Schrank, 1781) sec. Cantallo, Gomes, Antunes, Martins & Costa, 2022

References

  • Schrank, F. P. (1781) Enumeratio insectorum Austriae indigenorum. Apvd vidvam Eberhardi Klett et Franck, Augusta Vindelicorum [actual Augsburg], 548 pp. [https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / bibliography / 15091]
  • Davids, K., Bartsch, I., Deichsel, R., Di Sabatino, A., Gabrys, G., Gledhill, T., Jager, P., Makol, J., Smit, H., van der Hammen, H., Weigmann, G., Wohltmann, A. & Wurst, E. (2006) s. n. In: Gerecke, R. (Ed.), Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Vol. 7 / 2 - 1 Chelicerata: Araneae / Acari I. 1 st Edition. Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg, pp. I - X + 1 - 388. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 662 - 55958 - 1
  • GBIF (2022) GBIF - Occurrences. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Available from: https: // www. gbif. org / occurrence / search / (accessed 8 January 2022)
  • Cantallo, H., Gomes, N., Antunes, C., Ribeiro, T., Gomes, M. I. & Costa, D. A. (2021) Catalogue of aquatic mites from the Minho River (NW Iberian Peninsula). Environmental Smoke, 2021, 44 - 47. https: // doi. org / 10.32435 / envsmoke / xibesymp. 7
  • Coggi, A. (1897) Una nuova specie di Oribatide. In: Canestrini, G. (Ed.), Prospetto Dell' Acarofauna Italiana. Parte VIII. a. Stabilimento Prosperini, Padova, pp. 916 - 921.
  • Subias, L. S. (2018) Systematic, synonimical and biogeographical check-list of the world's oribatid mites (Acariformes, Oribatida) (Except fossils) (13 rd update) (Originally published in Graellsia, 60 (special issue): 3 - 305 (2004). Updated in June 2006, April 2007, May 2008. Graellsia, 60, 3 - 305. https: // doi. org / 10.3989 / graellsia. 2004. v 60. iExtra. 218
  • Perez-Inigo, C. (1997) Acari: Oribatei, Gymnonota I. In: Sanchez, M. A. R., Tercedor, J. A., Ros, X. B., Noguera, J. G., Sierra, A. G., Mayol, E. M., Piera, F. M., Marino, J. S. & Gonzalez, J. T. (Eds.), Fauna Iberica. Vol. 9. Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Madrid, pp. 374.