Lebertia (Lebertia) lusitanica Lundblad, 1956

Cantallo, Harold, Gomes, Nuno, Antunes, Carlos, Martins, Duarte & Costa, Dimítri De Araújo, 2022, Checklist of water mites from mainland Portugal and its archipelagos, Zootaxa 5213 (4), pp. 336-370 : 346

Lebertia (Lebertia) lusitanica Lundblad, 1956

Type material: Deposited in NRM: Holotype Lundblad No. Präp. 4449; Paratype: Lundblad No. Präp. 4450 ( Lundblad 1956) .

Type locality: Portugal: Beira Litoral ( Valdecasas 1988), in Fonte Fria, Mealhada, Buçaco mountain ( Lundblad 1956).

Geographical distribution: Iberian Peninsula ( Valdecasas 1988), French Pyrenees ( Angelier et al. 1985).

Distribution in Portugal: North: International Minho River ( Cantallo et al. 2021), inValença municipality-São Pedro da Torre; Centre: Beira Litoral ( Valdecasas 1988), in Fonte Fria, Mealhada, Buçaco mountain ( Lundblad 1956).

Material examined: 1/1/0; São Pedro da Torre , Portugal; 41º59′42.05″N, 8º40′27.94″W; 24 September 2020; coll by Aquamuseu Team; catalogue number NatMIP-CATr-0002 .

Ecological notes: Cold freshwater, found in cascade staircase with plenty of moss, together with platyhelminth Crenobia alpina ( Lundblad 1956) ; Possibly rhithrobiont-like (on river and tributaries habitats) species ( Di Sabatino et al. 2010). In Minho River, two individuals were collected in the main sector, on sediment type ‘moderately sorted coarse sand’( Cantallo et al. 2021), in which the logarithmic main grain size value was 0.633.

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