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Issue: Vol. 5676 No. 1: 8 Aug. 2025
Type: Monograph
Published: 2025-08-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5676.1.1
Page range: 1-74
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Checklist of water mites from the Balkan Peninsula: second supplement, new DNA barcodes and description of a new species

Department of Biology; University of Montenegro; Cetinjski put b.b.; 81000 Podgorica; Montenegro.
Institute of Biology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71-415 Szczecin; Poland
Bavarian State Collection of Zoology; Section Arthropoda varia; Münchhausenstraße 21; 81247 Munich; Germany.
Department of Natural History; NTNU University Museum; Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Trondheim; Norway.
Department of Biology; University of Montenegro; Cetinjski put b.b.; 81000 Podgorica; Montenegro.
Department of Genetics; Development & Molecular Biology; School of Biology; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Greece.
Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences; Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71–415 Szczecin; Poland
Institute of Biology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71-415 Szczecin; Poland
Department of Zoology; School of Biology; Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Greece.
Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences; Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71–415 Szczecin; Poland
University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; Department of Biology; Rooseveltov trg 6; Zagreb; Croatia.
University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; Department of Biology; Rooseveltov trg 6; Zagreb; Croatia.
Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology; University of Lodz; Banacha 12/16; 90-237 Łódź; Poland.
Institute of Biology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71-415 Szczecin; Poland
Institute of Biology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71-415 Szczecin; Poland
Institute of Biology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71-415 Szczecin; Poland
Department of Zoology and Animal Ecology; University of Life Sciences in Lublin; 20-950 Lublin; Poland.
Department of Natural History; NTNU University Museum; Norwegian University of Science and Technology; Trondheim; Norway.
Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences; Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71–415 Szczecin; Poland
Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences; Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71–415 Szczecin; Poland
Institute of Marine and Environmental Sciences; Center of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology; University of Szczecin; Wąska 13; 71–415 Szczecin; Poland
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Abstract

Here we redescribe the nine original species of Pintalia Stål, 1862 (Hemiptera, Fulgoromorpha, Cixiidae) based on type specimens from Brazil and provide an emended diagnosis for the genus. We provide an amended description of P. constellaris (Walker, 1858) with images of the fresh specimen. Furthermore, we describe twelve new species recently found in Brazilian caves in three proposed species-groups: Pintalia pictipennis-group, which includes P. pictipennis Stål, 1862, P. propria Muir, 1934, P. minuta sp. nov., P. minima sp. nov., P. magnaepiprocti sp. nov., P. serratilis sp. nov. and P. stali sp. nov.; Pintalia constellaris-group, which includes P. constellaris (Walker, 1858), P. ecuadorensis Muir, 1934, P. speciosa sp. nov and P. fennahi sp. nov.; and Pintalia painensis-group, which includes P. painensis sp. nov., P. dorensis sp. nov., P. lundi sp. nov., P. montalvaniensis sp. nov., and P. muiri sp. nov. Adults and nymphs of the new species herein described were observed inside caves feeding on roots from epigean vegetation and are hence tentatively classified as subtroglophiles, eutroglophiles and troglobionts. The new species were collected from caves in Minas Gerais state and Bahia state. A key to the Brazilian species-groups and new species is provided. Information on the distribution, depository, and a list of previously described taxa from Brazil are also provided. The species described herein increases the number of Pintalia species described for Brazil to thirty-two, and ninety-four in the Americas in total.

 

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Pešić, V., Bankowska, A., Goldschmidt, T., Hårsaker, K., Jovanović, M., Kaitetzidou, E., Krakowiak, M., Kozłowska, A., Michaloudi, E., Michoński, G., Miliša, M., Pozojević, I., Rewicz, T., Rusiniak, O., Sobolak, K., Szućko, I., Stryjecki, R., Stur, E., Szlauer-Łukaszewska, A., Szenejko, M. & Zawal, A. (2025) Checklist of water mites from the Balkan Peninsula: second supplement, new DNA barcodes and description of a new species. Zootaxa, 5676 (1), 1–74. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5676.1.1