Feltria (Feltria) japonica (Imamura, 1954) Pešić, 2014

Pešić, Vladimir, 2014, Checklist of the water mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia) of Korea, with description of one new subgenus and two new species, Ecologica Montenegrina 1 (4), pp. 204-230 : 214

Feltria (Feltria) japonica (Imamura, 1954) nov. stat.

Records from Korea: Gangwon Province – “ Feltria cornuta japonica ” Chung and Kim (1993) .

Remarks. This taxon was previously treated as a subspecies of Feltria cornuta Walter, 1927 , a placement not supported in view of clear differences between these two species. Feltria japonica differs from F. cornuta , and resembles F. longispina Motaş & Angelier, 1928 by the III­L­5 distal margin extending to form an acute, pointed projection flanking the insertion of the terminal segment, a lower numbers of Ac (14­28) and generally minor dimensions. Feltria longispina differs from F. japonica in the stouter shape of male idiosoma, females of the two species cannot be distinguished at our present state of knowledge.

Habitat: Mountain streams.

Distribution: Japan (Hokkaido), Korea.