Ljania bipapillata Thor, 1898

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 : 355

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.4.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7385713
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scientific name	Ljania bipapillata Thor, 1898
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Type material: Holotype ( Thor 1898a), possibly not deposited in any scientific collection.

Type locality: Denmark: Kristiania , nowadays Oslo ( Thor 1898a) .

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

Distribution in Portugal: Centre: Beira Litoral ( Valdecasas 1988), in Fonte Fria, Mealhada, Buçaco mountain ( Lundblad 1956).

Ecological notes: Present on low-order small rivers, including stream rheocrenes; Larval insect hosts: Chironomidae dipterans ( Gerecke et al. 2016). In Portugal, this species was found on a cold cascade staircase, together with platyhelminth Crenobia alpina ( Lundblad 1956) .