Water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 from Kyrgyzstan (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Hygrobatidae) with the description of six new species

Abstract

Water mites of the genus Atractides Koch, 1837 are among the most frequently found mites in running waters of the Western Palaearctic. In the present study, new records are given for two previously described species, and six species new to science are described from Kyrgyzstan, i.e., Atractides bellus n. sp., A. karakali n. sp., A. kyrgyzicus n. sp., A. tienshanensis n. sp., A. ivanae n. sp. and A. yunusi n. sp. All material was collected in August 2013 during a collecting trip of the authors.

New species of genus Atractides Koch, 1837 (Acari: Hydrachnidiae, Hygrobatidae) from Qinghai, China

“…European Journal of Taxonomy 833: 121-142 (2022) Currently, the genus Atractides has four subgenera (Atractides Koch, 1837;Tympanomegapus Thor, 1923;Polymegapus K. Viets, 1926;Maderomegapus Lundblad, 1941), and about 405 species have been described from all over the world (K.O. Viets 1987;Gerecke 2003;, 2021a, 2021bSmit 2020;Gülle et al 2021; http://www.watermite.org/). Based on previous information, two subgenera and 18 species of Atractides have been reported for the Chinese fauna: Atractides s. str.…”