Neumania (Neumania) elliptica Walter, 1925

Material examined.

Portugal, Guarda: • Manteigas, Poço do Inferno, 40.373°N, 7.516°W, 1078 m a.s.l., 21 Aug. 2023, leg. Ferreira, Benitez-Bosco & Padilha, 1 ♂ (sequenced) ; • Seia, Rio Alva, Nossa Senhora do Desterro, river, 40.395°N, 7.694°W, 791 m a.s.l., 23 Aug. 2023, leg. Ferreira, Benitez-Bosco & Padilha, 1 ♀ (sequenced) .

Remarks.

The specimens from Portugal morphologically match the description of N. elliptica . This species was originally described from Algeria (Walter 1925) and later on reported by Pešić et al. (2007) from Corsica (France) and Italy (Sardinia and Sicily). Neumania elliptica is a characteristic colonizer of pools in summer-warm lowland streams with silty substrate (Pešić et al. 2007).

The sequenced specimens from Portugal form a unique BIN (BOLD: AFU 2122), with the nearest neighboring BIN being BOLD: ACR 9513 (p - distance 19.16 %), which includes specimens of N. deltoides from the Netherlands, Macedonia and Turkey, available in BOLD.

Distribution.

SW-Mediterranean. New for Portugal.