Abstract
A yellowish spotted and medium-sized new leech of the family Erpobdellidae with a typical annulation of the genus Dina was found in a spring in the northeastern Montenegro. In the present study, we used an integrative taxonomic approach that combines morphological and DNA barcoding data to describe a new species, Dina crnogorensis sp. nov. Morphologically, the new species is most similar to Dina minuoculata Grosser, Moritz & Pešić, 2007 and Dina serbica Pešić & Grosser, 2022 from the same geographical region, but also to D. orientalis Grosser, Nesemann & Pešić, 2011 from the Near and Middle East. Differences in anatomy and the results of species-delimitation analyses based on COI sequences supported species status of the new species.
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