Revision of DNA barcode records of selected torrenticolid mites (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Torrenticolidae) from the Balkan Peninsula, with the description of a new species from Montenegro

The applicability of public barcode reference library for assessing the faunistic and genetic documentation of water mite diversity depends on the accuracy of the species identification. In this paper, we revise and comment on DNA barcode records of several tagged torrenticolid species from the Balkans, for which we found discrepancies resulting from either incorrect species identification or taxonomic challenges, such as the annotation of a potentially undescribed species. Torrenticola graecula Di Sabatino & Gerecke, 2003, previously known only from Greece, is newly reported for the water mite fauna of Serbia, and one species from Montenegro (Torrenticola vladika n. sp.) is described as new to science.