ANISITSIELLIDAE Koenike, 1910

Pešić, Vladimir, Smit, Harry, Gerecke, Reinhard & Sabatino, Antonio Di, 2010, The water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) of the Balkan peninsula, a revised survey with new records and descriptions of five new taxa 2586, Zootaxa 2586 (1), pp. 1-100 : 24-25

Family ANISITSIELLIDAE Koenike, 1910

Subfamily Anisitsiellinae Koenike, 1910

Genus Bandakia Thor, 1913

Bandakia concreta Thor, 1913

Records from the study area: Macedonia: “ B. concreta longissima “ Schwoerbel (1963) ; Bulgaria: Pešić (2006); Greece: Gerecke (1994).

Habitat: Rheohelocrenic and helocrenic springs.

Distribution: Western Palaearctic.

Bandakia speciosa K.Viets, 1953

Records from the study area: Macedonia: “ B. corsica “ (err., non E. Angelier, 1951) Schwoerbel (1963) — Gerecke (1991b); Bulgaria: “ B. corsica “ (err., non E. Angelier, 1951) Petrova (1968b, 1971)— Gerecke (1991b).

Habitat: Hyporheobiont.

Distribution: Central Europe, Balkan.

Subfamily Nilotoniinae K. Viets, 1929 Genus Nilotonia Thor, 1905 Records without species identification from the study area: Bulgaria: “ Dartia sp. “ Petrova (1971).

Nilotonia (Dartia) borneri (Walter, 1922)

Records from the study area: Bulgaria: “ Dartia borneri “ Petrova (1971) .

Habitat: Weakly seeping spring brook.

Distribution: Central, Southern and south-eastern Europe, rare.

Nilotonia (Nilotonia) longipora (Walter, 1925)

Records from the study area: Croatia: “ Dartiella longipora “ K. Viets (1936) , Pešić (2002f); Macedonia: “ Dartia longipora “ Schwoerbel (1963) ; Bulgaria: “ Dartiella longipora “ K. Viets (1935b) ; Greece: “ Limnesia tuberculata ” K. Viets (1950) , Gerecke (1994).

Habitat: Weakly seeping helocrenes, with full exposure to sunlight.

Distribution: Mediterranean, Poland, Russia.

Nilotonia (Manotonia) tegulata (K.Viets, 1951)

Records from the study area: Greece: “ Manotonia tegulata ” Gerecke (1994) .

Habitat: Weakly seeping helocrenes.

Distribution: Mediterranean, Asia Minor.