ZooKeys 116: 1-14, doi: 10.3897/zookeys.116.1253
New records of water mites of the family Torrenticolidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with descriptions of two new species from Nanshih River system in Taiwan and redescription of Torrenticola ussuriensis (Sokolow, 1940) from the Russian Far East
Vladimir Pesic‡, Ksenia Semenchenko§, Tapas Chatterjee|, Rita S.W. Yam¶, Benny K.K. Chan#‡ University, Podgorica§ Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences| Indian School of Learning, Dhanbad, India¶ Department of Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan# Biodiversity Research Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Corresponding author: Vladimir Pesic ( vladopesic@gmail.com ) © Vladimir Pesic, Ksenia Semenchenko, Tapas Chatterjee, Rita Yam, Benny K.K. Chan. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Yam R, Chan B, Chatterjee T (2011) New records of water mites of the family Torrenticolidae (Acari, Hydrachnidia) with descriptions of two new species from Nanshih River system in Taiwan and redescription of Torrenticola ussuriensis (Sokolow, 1940) from the Russian Far East. ZooKeys 116: 1-14. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.116.1253 |  |
Abstract
New records of torrenticolid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Nanshih River, Taiwan, are presented. Two new species are described: Torrenticola nanshihensis and T. taiwanicus; the latter species is compared with T. ussuriensis (Sokolow, 1940), a poorly known species which is re-described based on a new material from the Russian Far East; Monatractides cf. circuloides (Halík, 1930) is reported for the first time for Taiwan.
Keywords
Acari; water mites; new species; running waters; Nanshih River system; Taiwan