TY - JOUR JF - Acarologia T1 - Water mites of the genus Lebertia Neuman, 1880 from the eastern Himalayas (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Lebertiidae) VL - 62 IS - 2 SP - 302 EP - 316 PY - 2022 SN - 0044-586X SN - 2107-7207 PB - Les Amis d'Acarologia AU - Gerecke, Reinhard AU - Smit, Harry UR - https://doi.org/10.24349/esot-nc22 DO - 10.24349/esot-nc22 DA - 2022-03-11 ET - 2022-03-11 KW - taxonomy KW - stream fauna KW - Nepal KW - Bhutan KW - new species KW - systematics AB - The only species of the water mite genus Lebertia so far recorded from the Himalayan mountains, L. orientalis Walter, 1928, known from a single deutonymph, is designated as a nomen dubium. Five species new to science are described: L. (L.) himalayaensis n. sp., L. (L.) khatrii n. sp., L. (L.) disparilis n. sp., L. (Mixolebertia) veeli n. sp. and L. (Septlebertia) altomontana n. sp. For two species recorded from China we have the following remarks: specimens recorded by Wang et al. (2016) under the name of L. (L.) fimbriata cannot be attributed to this species; L. exceedia Wang, Wang, Jin & Guo, 2020 should be transferred from the subgenus Eolebertia to the subgenus Septlebertia. ER -