Atractides (Atractides) nikooae Pesic, 2004

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.15046233
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DE429E7D-79B4-5279-B820-FE36BB150952
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scientific name	Atractides (Atractides) nikooae Pesic, 2004
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Treatment

Material examined.

Burdur • TR 25-2024 Karamusa stream, 37.186405°N, 29.75374°E, 26 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 2 ♀ (sequenced) GoogleMaps • TR 23-2024 , Çavdır , spring, 37.14478°N, 29.656534°E, 26 Apr. 2024, leg. Pešić, Zawal, Gülle & Gülle, 1 ♂ (sequenced), one palp and one I-leg dissected and slide mounted ( RMNH) GoogleMaps .

Remarks.

The specimens from southwestern Türkiye match the description of Atractides nikooae , a species originally described from the Markazi Province, West Iran ( Pesic et al. 2004), and later reported from Siirt Province in Turkey ( Esen et al. 2013 a). The specimens from Türkiye form a unique BIN (BOLD: AGG 3766), with the nearest neighboring BIN being BOLD: ACS 0163, which includes specimens of A. distans from the Netherlands, Poland, and Italy. The p - distance between these two BINs is estimated at 14.63 %.

Distribution.

Iran, Türkiye.