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 Pešić; Ksenia A Semenchenko; Tapas Chatterjee; Rita S W Yam; Benny K K Chan

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

Zookeys. 2011:(116):1-14. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.116.1253. Epub 2011 Jul 7.

Authors

Vladimir Pešić¹, Ksenia A Semenchenko, Tapas Chatterjee, Rita S W Yam, Benny K K Chan

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biology, University of Montenegro, Cetinjski put b.b., 81000 Podgorica, Serbia and Montenegro.

Abstract

New records of torrenticolid water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from Nanshih River, Taiwan, are presented. Two new species are described: Torrenticola nanshihensis and Torrenticola taiwanicus; the latter species is compared with Torrenticola 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; Nanshih River system; Taiwan; new species; running waters; water mites.