TY  - JOUR
JF  - Acarologia
T1  - Torrenticola trimaculata n. sp. (Parasitengona: Torrenticolidae), a three-spotted water mite from eastern North America: taxonomic history, species delimitation, and survey of external morphology
VL  - 55
IS  - 1
SP  - 71
EP  - 116
PY  - 2015
SN  - 0044-586X
SN  - 2107-7207
PB  - Les Amis d'Acarologia
AU  - Fisher, J.R.
AU  - Fisher, D.M.
AU  - Nelson, W.A.
AU  - O'Neill, J.C.
AU  - Skvarla, M.J.
AU  - Ochoa, R.
AU  - Bauchan, G.R.
AU  - Radwell, A.J.
AU  - Dowling, A.P.G.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1051/acarologia/20152155
DO  - 10.1051/acarologia/20152155
DA  - 2015-03-30
ET  - 2015-03-30
KW  - Trombidiformes
KW  - Prostigmata
KW  - Hydrachnidia
KW  - Hydrachnidiae
KW  - LT-SEM
KW  - Cocconeidaceae
AB  - Torrenticola trimaculata Fisher n. sp. is described from eastern North America as the first in a series of descriptions on Torrenticolidae. As such, the study includes expanded discussions of methods, early taxonomic history, and numerous images surveying external morphology using a diversity of imaging methods. Species hypotheses were supported with analysis of the "barcoding" region of COI. Torrenticola trimaculata is found to be a wide-ranging, variable species with two distinct morphs that do not coexist locally. Also, we report the first record of the diatom, Cocconeis placentula Ehrenberg 1838, as epiphytic on water mites.
ER -