First records of water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia) from Queretaro, Mexico

Authors

  • Tom Goldschmidt Zoologische Staatssammlung, Munich
  • Marcia M. Ramírez Sánchez Laboratorio de Acarología “Anita Hoffmann”, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Adriana Pedroza Ramos Unidad de Ecología en Sistemas Acuáticos (UDESA), Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia (UPTC)
  • Axel E. Rico Sánchez Laboratorio de Bioconservación y manejo, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas del IPN
  • Margarita P. Ojeda Colección Nacional de Ácaros (CNAC), Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Ricardo Miguel Pérez Munguia Laboratorio de Entomología “Sócrates Cisneros Paz”. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalg
  • Mabel Pimiento Ortega Universidad de Guadalajara
  • Ana L. Carlos Delgado Colección Nacional de Ácaros (CNAC), Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • Salvador Durán Suárez Laboratorio de Entomología “Sócrates Cisneros Paz”. Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/dugesiana.v22i1.4172

Keywords:

Hydrachnidia, water mites, Mexico, Sierra Gorda, diversity, microhabitats

Abstract

With 258 reported species, the Mexican water mite fauna is one of the better known within Latin America. With respect to the geological, climatic and biogeographic complexity of the Country, this knowledge is not homogeneous – some regions, especially at South-East, including the Gulf coast, are much better investigated than others, like the central-north, where nearly no data are available. During a water mite course (taking place as pre-congress activity of the Second Latin-American Congress on Freshwater Invertebrates in Querétaro) we sampled in the Río Arroyo La Barranca (known as Río Escanela) in the Reserva de la Biósfera Sierra Gorda de Querétaro. In total we collected 112 water mite specimens of ten genera – Hydrodroma, Protzia, Sperchon, Torrenticola, Atractides, Corticacarus, Mideopsis, Aturus, Woolastookia and Axonopsis – in seven families. These specimens represent the first records of Hydrachnidia for the Querétaro State. The finding of Protzia is the first record of this genus in Mexico. In spite of the rather small number of water mites collected, a clear separation of the fauna in different microhabitats was found and these findings are indicative for the potential and so far undescribed diversity of this, as well as other regions in Mexico

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Published

2015-10-05

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Vol. 22 No. 1 (2015): Junio 2015

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