A Checklist of the Water Mites Inhabiting European Inland Waters
from Limnofauna Europaea, kindly authorized by Spektrum Verlag
This is an update (last modified: 01-09-2016) of the water mite chapter published by K.O.Viets (1978) in Limnofauna Europaea.
Some taxa which are obviously or probably synonyms are included (see taxonomic remarks at the end of the line). Taxonomic remarks are given as often as they appeared necessary, but further comments will prove to be necessary in future.
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X
Maghreb
14
Central Lowlands
1
Iberian Peninsula
15
Baltic Province
2
The Pyrenees
16
Eastern Lowlands
3
Italy
17
Ireland
4
The Alps
18
Great Britan
5
Dinaric Western Balkan
19
Iceland
6
Hellenic Western Balkan
20
Boreal Highlands
7
Eastern Balkan
21
Tundra
8
Western Highlands
22
North Sweden
9
Central Highlands
23
Taiga
10
The Carpathians
24
Caucasus
11
Hungarian Lowlands
25
Caspian Flats
12
Pontic Province
Y
Israel, Turkey, Syria
13
Western Lowlands
The update is based on papers published since 1978 or personally communication by Bader, Biesiadka, Cimpean, Davids, Di Sabatino, Erman, Gerecke, Gledhill, Oezkan, Pesic, Smit, Tuzovskij, Valdecasas, Van der Hammen, K.O.Viets, Wainstein; and for older data from the areas x and y on the private database Di Sabatino & Gerecke. As compared with K.O.Viets (1978), this list is completed also for the area x (Maghreb) and y (Israel, Turkey, Syria).