Lebertia (Mixolebertia) halberti Koenike, 1902

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 : 347

Lebertia (Mixolebertia) halberti Koenike, 1902

Synonym: Lebertia (Mixolebertia) schmidtii Thor, 1911

Type material: Holotype ( Koenike 1902), possibly not deposited in any scientific collection.

Type locality: Ireland: Dartrey ( Koenike 1902) .

Geographical distribution: North Europe ( Di Sabatino et al. 2010).

Distribution in Portugal: North: International Minho River ( Cantallo et al. 2021), in Valença municipality-São Pedro da Torre.

Material examined: 0/0/1; Pedro da Torre , Portugal; 41º59′42.05″N, 8º40′27.94″W; 24 September 2020; coll by Aquamuseu Team; catalogue number NatMIP-CATr-0007 .

Ecological notes: In standing waters ( Di Sabatino et al. 2010). In Minho River, one individual was collected in the main sector, on sediment type ‘moderately sorted coarse sand’ ( Cantallo et al. 2021), in which logarithmic main grain size value was 0.633.

Remarks: First record mentioned for Portugal ( Cantallo et al. 2021), and also represents the first occurrence for Southern Europe.