Monatractides corsicus Pešić & Smit, 2023

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 : 34

Monatractides corsicus Pešić & Smit, 2023

Material examined — ITALY, Sardinia, Comune di Buggerru, It 2022–4, Spiaggia di San Nicolò , outflow of the contained Sorgente San Nicolò (approx. 100m below, 20m before the mouth on the beach, under the SP 83 bridge, small stream, aquatic plants, 39.4198° N, 8.4122° E, 5 m asl., 12. Aug. 2022, leg. Goldschmidt 1♂, 1♀ (sequenced; voucher IDs: CCDB-44301-G10, CCDB-44301-G11).

Remarks — The sequences obtained from the specimens from Sardinia fall into BIN BOLD:AEN9161 which, in addition to the specimens used in this study for molecular analysis, also includes five specimens from Corsica morphologically assigned to M. corsicus . The latter species belongs to the M. stadleri- complex and was recently described by Pešić & Smit (2023) from Corsica using morphological data and DNA barcodes. The species is new for Italy.