Neumania (Neumania) imitata Koenike, 1908

Pešić, Vladimir, Zawal, Andrzej, Gülle, Pınar, Gülle, İskender, Jovanović, Milica, Bańkowska, Aleksandra, Musielak, Stanisław & Smit, Harry, 2025, Water mite diversity from southwestern Türkiye through the lens of the DNA barcodes, with the description of one new species (Acari, Hydrachnidia), ZooKeys 1232, pp. 205-236 : 205-236

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1232.142699
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:B7DFF2E2-C37B-4283-969B-A7648C555734
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15046253
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scientific name	Neumania (Neumania) imitata Koenike, 1908
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Treatment

Material examined.

Antalya • TR 29-2024 Aksu, pond near Antalya city , 36.87547°N, 30.8454°E, 27 Apr. 2024 leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 2 ♀ (sequenced) GoogleMaps .

Other material examined.

Neumania imitata , the Netherlands, Merkske • Halsche Beemden , 51.422°N, 4.826°E, 13 Jun. 2016 leg. Smit 3 ♂ (sequenced; NLACA 976-17 / RMNH.5070734 , NLACA 977-17 / RMNH.5070735 , NLACA 978-17 / RMNH.5070736 ), dissected and slide mounted ( RMNH) GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

The examined male in our study, identified as Neumania imitata following Gerecke et al. (2016), forms a unique BIN (BOLD: AGG 4333). The p - distance between this BIN and its nearest neighbor, BOLD: ADF 7924, which includes specimens of N. imitata from the Netherlands, is estimated at 2.25 %.

Distribution.

Europe; rare, reported from France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Montenegro, and Portugal ( Pešić et al. 2024).