Abstract

With a brief review on taxonomic studies of Chinese water mites since the early 20th century, this paper gives a checklist of the 193 species in 34 subgenera, 36 genera, 19 subfamilies, 19 families, 7 superfamilies, recorded from China. Forty-five of these species (23.38%) are Palaearctic-Oriental or polyregional, 19 (9.9%) Palaearctic, 129 (66.8%) Oriental, and 118 (61.1%) known at present only from China. The information on distribution within China is given for each species. Hygrobates (Rivobates) octoporus Jin, 1996 is replaced with Hygrobates (Rivobates) hexoporus Jin & Yi nomen novum.