Sperchonopsis procera Láska, 1965,

Sabatino, Antonio Di, Gerecke, Reinhard, Gledhill, Terence & Smit, Harry, 2009, On the taxonomy of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) described from the Palaearctic, part 2: Hydryphantoidea and Lebertioidea, Zootaxa 2266, pp. 1-34 : 20-21

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.190843
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6217570
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B687A9-737B-AB39-FF0E-F97DD27897F7
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Sperchonopsis procera Láska, 1965
status	stat. nov.

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Sperchonopsis procera Láska, 1965 stat. nov.

Sperchonopsis verrucosa procera Láska, 1965

Sperchonopsis phreaticus Biesiadka, 1975 , nov. syn.

Material examined: Type series ( part.) ex. Moravian Museum, Brno, as syntypes, 2 specimens on 1 slide, registr. number 1570/1SM 47: Sperchonopsis procera Cis 1570 2 Ƥ. 1495-1, Slovakia, Miloňovsky potok u Vcl. Karlovic (Becva) 13.8.1964 leg. Láska; Sperchonopsis procera Montenegro, YU 66, Crkvine. R. Bistrica. Karaman/Chappuis dig 30.09.2006, coll. Pešić & Gerecke, (1/1/0). Gerecke det.

Description: The descriptions and figures provided by Láska (1965) and Biesiadka (1975) adequately define S. procera .

Discussion: Laska (1965) based his description of S. procera on three females ( syntypes) collected from two streams, the Velká Bielá Voda in Slovakia (Ƥ, 18.7.58) and the Miloňovsky in Moravia (2Ƥ, 13.8.64). Comparison of the two female specimens from Moravia with the 3 and Ƥ from Montenegro and the original descriptions by Laska (1965) for S. verrucosa procera and Biesiadka (1975) for S. phreaticus indicated their conspecificity. Thus S. phreaticus Biesiadka should be considered a junior synonym of S. procera Láska.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Trombidiformes
Family	Sperchonidae
Genus	Sperchonopsis