Pešić Vladimir
Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro.; Email:
Zootaxa. 2015 Mar 5;3926(2):287-95. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.9.
A new water mite species, Hygrobates zawali n. sp., is described from material collected in the ancient Lake Ohrid on the Balkan Peninsula. This species has been confused for a long time with the rhithrobiontic H. diversiporus Sokolow, 1927, known from the Caucasus (Russia) and Turkey. The new species closely resembles H. quanaticola Schwoerbel & Sepasgozarian, 1976, a little documented species described from Iran, which is here illustrated based on re-examination of the type material. Furthermore, a key for the identification of species of the subgenus Rivobates Thor, 1897, from the Western Palaearctic is given.
一种新的水螨物种——扎瓦利水螨(Hygrobates zawali n. sp.),是根据在巴尔干半岛古老的奥赫里德湖采集的样本描述的。该物种长期以来一直与分布于高加索地区(俄罗斯)和土耳其的溪流栖居物种——1927年由索科洛夫发现的多样水螨(H. diversiporus)相混淆。新物种与1976年由施沃贝尔和塞帕斯戈扎里安描述的来自伊朗的记录较少的物种——水生栖水螨(H. quanaticola)非常相似,本文基于对模式标本的重新检查对其进行了图示说明。此外,还给出了一份用于鉴定来自古北区西部的1897年由索尔命名的 Rivobates 亚属物种的检索表。