Limnesia (Limnesia) zelandica Cook, 1983

Smit, Harry & Pešić, Vladimir, 2020, New records of water mites from New Zealand, with the description of three new genera and ten new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia), Acarologia 60 (4), pp. 903-950 : 912

Limnesia (Limnesia) zelandica Cook, 1983

New records. North Island. 0/1/0, Small stream ± 1 km north of Pureora (Waimiha Stream?), 38°30 ′ 34.61 ″ S 175°33 ′ 44.96 ″ E, 17­x­2000 ; 0/1/0, Makahi River at Eketahuna, 40°38 ′ 43.15 ″ S 175°41 ′ 59.60 ″ E, 19­x­2000. South Island. 0/1/0, Ronga River at confluence with Brown

River, Rai Valley, 41°13 ′ 5.96 ″ S 173°35 ′ 13.30 ″ E, 23­x­2000 ; 0/1/0, Dip Creek at crossing with Lindiss Pass Road, 44°36.583 ′ S 169°37.595 ′ E, alt. 507 asl, 21­xii­2014 ; 0/1/0, Cache Creek at crossing with Haast Pass Road, Mt Aspiring National Park, 43°58.122 ′ S 169°13.799 ′ E, alt. 42

m asl, 25­xii­2014 ; 0/1/0, Six Mile Creek, N of Middlemarch, 45°27.337 ′ S 170°07.729 ′ E, alt. 290 m asl, 2­i­2015 ; 1/0/0, Wangapeka River, interstitial, at Siberia Flat, Kahurangi National

Park, 41°26.495 ′ S 172°35.025 ′ E, alt. 282 m asl, 2­iii­2020 ; 0/1/0, unnamed stream crossing Lillburn Valley Road, W of Clifden, 45°59.452 ′ S 167°23.351 ′ E, alt. 164 m asl, 13­iii­2020. Distribution. Previously known from three localities from North and South Island.