Atractides subasper Koenike, 1902

Pešić, Vladimir & Goldschmidt, Tom, 2023, New DNA-assisted records of water mites from Sardinia, with the description of a new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia), Ecologica Montenegrina 69, pp. 24-44 : 36

Atractides subasper Koenike, 1902

Material examined — ITALY, Sardinia, Comune di Muravera, It 2021-1a, Riu Ollastu, N of SS 125 between San Priamo and San Gregorio, stream, riffle, 39.3552° N, 9.4739° E, 46 m asl., 8. Aug. 2021, leg. Goldschmidt 1♀ (sequenced; voucher ID: CCDB 41824 F04); Comune di Fluminimaggiore , It 2022-1c, Sorgente Pubusinu, S of Fluminimaggiore, approx. 5 km gravel road from the junction of the SS 126 to the E, strong karst spring, moss carpet on broken dam, 39.4099° N, 8.5275° E, 206 m asl., 7. Aug. 2022, leg. Goldschmidt 1♂ (sequenced; voucher ID: CCDB-44301-H05); It 2022-2a, outflow of Sorgente Pubusinu, S of Fluminimaggiore, approx. 5 km gravel road from the junction of the SS 126 to the E, small stream, moss, 39.4101° N, 8.5272° E, 198 m asl., 7. Aug. 2022, leg. Goldschmidt 1♀ (sequenced; voucher ID: CCDB- 44301-H10) .

Remarks — The specimens from Sardinia molecular analysed in this study match the description of Atractides subasper . The sequenced specimens from Sardinia form a distinct BIN (BOLD:AES6460). The p - distance between the latter BIN and its nearest neighbour, BOLD:AEX4044, which includes 11 specimens from Italy, Bulgaria, Albania and Switzerland, and one female specimen from Serbia morphologically assigned to A. glandulosus (Walter, 1918) , is estimated at 10.91%.