Unionicola crassipes ( Müller, 1776 )

Cantallo, Harold, Gomes, Nuno, Antunes, Carlos, Martins, Duarte & Costa, Dimítri De Araújo, 2022, Checklist of water mites from mainland Portugal and its archipelagos, Zootaxa 5213 (4), pp. 336-370 : 362

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Unionicola crassipes ( Müller, 1776 )
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Unionicola crassipes ( Müller, 1776)

Synonym: Hydrachna crassipes Müller, 1776 (original designation)

Type material: Unknown, possibly lost.

Type locality: Denmark (probably surroundings of Copenhagen) or Norway ( Müller 1776) .

Geographical distribution: Palaearctic ( Gerecke et al. 2016).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Alta, in Santa Comba Dão, and Côa River, near 10 km to Vilar Formoso; South: Estremadura, in Colares-Sintra municipality; Alentejo, in Ribeira de Odivelas; Guadiana River-between Serpa and Beja municipalities ( Lundblad 1956; Valdecasas 1988).

Ecological notes: In standing and slow-moving freshwater ecosystems, with ectoparasitic larvae of insectchironomids and on larval Trichoptera ( Gerecke et al. 2016), in clear water, on a sandy substrate; present in plants, such as Azolla spp. Batrachium spp. , Carex spp. , Juncus spp. , Myriophyllum spp. , Nymphea spp. , and Scirpus spp. ( Lundblad 1956) .

Unionicola parvula Lundblad, 1954

Synonym: Unionicola (Pentatax) parvula Lundblad, 1954 (original designation)

Type material: Deposited in NRM: Holotype one female ( Lundblad 1954), Lundblad No. Präp. 4120; Paratype: One male Lundblad No. Präp. 4381 ( Lundblad 1956).

Type locality: France: Béziers ( Lundblad 1954, 1956).

Geographical distribution: France and Iberian Peninsula ( Gerecke et al. 2016; Lundblad 1956).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Alta, in Santa Comba Dão ( Lundblad 1956).

Ecological notes: Freshwater, at slow-moderate flowing streams( Gerecke et al. 2016), on sandy substrate; present in Carex spp. plants ( Lundblad 1956).

Unionicola hankoi Szalay, 1927

Type material: Paratype: One male deposited in NRM, Lundblad No. Präp. 4501 ( Lundblad 1956) .

Type locality: Hungary: Balatonsee ( Lundblad 1956; Szalay 1927).

Geographical distribution: Eastern and Southern Europe ( Gerecke et al. 2016; Tuzovskij & Semenchenko 2015).

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Alta ( Valdecasas 1988), in Côa River, near 10 km to Vilar Formoso ( Lundblad 1956).

Ecological notes: In lentic and lotic freshwater ecosystems ( Erman et al. 2010); Found in the mantle cavity (females) or the branchiae (deutonymph forms) of mollusc-unionids ( Gerecke et al. 2016); present in Myriophyllum spp. and Juncus spp. ( Lundblad 1956) .

Erman, O., Pesic, V., Esen, Y. & Ozkan, M. (2010) A checklist of the water mites of Turkey (Acari: Hydrachnidia) with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 2624 (1), 1. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2624.1.1

Gerecke, R., Gledhill, T., Pesic, V. & Smit, H. (2016) Susswasserfauna von Mitteleuropa. Bd. 7 / 2 - 3. Chelicerata: Acari III. Band 7 / 2 - 3. Springer Spektrum, Heidelberg, Dordrecht, London and New York, pp. i - xi + 1 - 429. [http: // link. springer. com / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 8274 - 2689 - 5]

Lundblad, O. (1954) Neue sudeuropaische Wassermilben. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 153, 154 - 159.

Lundblad, O. (1956) Zur Kenntnis sud- und mitteleuropaischer Hydrachnellen. Arkiv for Zoologi 10, 1 - 306, tafel LXXXIV.

Muller, O. F. (1776) s. n. In: Muller, O. F. (Ed.), Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Hallageriis, Havniae, pp. i - xxxii + 1 - 282. [http: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / item / 47550] https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 13268

Szalay, L. (1927) Eine neue Wassermilbe aus dem Balatonsee. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 71, 279 - 281.

Tuzovskij, P. V. & Semenchenko, K. A. (2015) Water mites of the genus Unionicola Haldeman, 1842 (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Unionicolidae) in Russia. Zootaxa, 3919 (3), 401 - 456. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3919.3.1

Valdecasas, A. G. (1988) Lista sinonimica y bibliografica de las Hidracnelas (Acari, Hydrachnellae) de la Peninsula Iberica, Islas Baleares e Islas Canarias. Lista de la flora y fauna de las aguas continentales de la Peninsula Iberica. Publicacion no 5. Asociacion Espanola de Limnologia, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, 81 pp. [http: // www. limnetica. net / documentos / listas / Lista _ 5 _ Hidracnelas. pdf]

NRM

Swedish Museum of Natural History - Zoological Collections

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

SuperOrder

Acariformes

Order

Trombidiformes

SubOrder

Prostigmata

SuperFamily

Hygrobatoidea

Family

Unionicolidae

SubFamily

Unionicolinae

Genus

Unionicola