Javalbia bella Cook, 1974

Smit, Harry, Gerecke, Reinhard, Pešić, Vladimir & Gledhill, Terence, 2015, On the taxonomic state of water mite taxa (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 3, Hygrobatoidea and Arrenuroidea with new faunistic data, Zootaxa 3981 (4), pp. 542-552 : 550

Javalbia bella Cook, 1974

Material examined. France, dept. Lozère, Le Gordon de Mialet at Le Martinet, 44º 0 9.371 N, 3º 50.449 E, alt. 229 m a.s.l., 29-vi-2014, 0/1/0, leg H. Smit.

Since the first description of this species from Spain ( Cook 1974), this species has been recorded only once, from Corsica ( Gerecke & Di Sabatino 2013). This is the first record from continental France.