A new Allocyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from bromeliads and records of freshwater copepods from Mexico Author Suárez-Morales, Eduardo El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Quintana Roo 77014 (Mexico) esuarez @ ecosur. mx Author Mendoza, Fredy Departamento de Control de Enfermedades Transmitidas por Vector, Servicios de Salud del Estado de Veracruz, Jalapa, Veracruz (Mexico) Author Mercado-Salas, Nancy El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Quintana Roo 77014 (Mexico) text Zoosystema 2010 2010-09-30 32 3 393 407 http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.5252/z2010n3a2 journal article 10.5252/z2010n3a2 1638-9387 4554283 FEB6718E-6B51-4AAA-BE54-8897FC20AF9A Mesocyclops longisetus s.s. (Thiébaud, 1912) MATERIAL EXAMINED. –– Mexico . El Castillo, Jalapa, Veracruz ( 19°32’45”N , 96°51’44”W ), 18.IX.2007 , Ruth Hernández Xoliot, 3 adult ♀♀ , 2 copepodites (ECO-CHZ-05503). REMARKS The strict form of this species appears to have a neotropical distribution; it has been known to occur in Brazil , Argentina , Paraguay , Peru , Colombia , Chile , Honduras , Panama , southern United States , and Caribbean islands (Pilati & Menu-Marque 2002; Dussart & Defaye 2006 ). In Mexico it has been recorded only from states in the southeast: Campeche , Chiapas , Mexico , Tabasco , and Yucatan (Gutiérrez-Aguirre & Suárez-Morales 2001; Gutiérrez-Aguirre et al . 2006). Because of its size, mandibular morphology and its effectiveness in predating larval mosquitoes (Suárez-Morales et al . 2003), this species has become one of the main candidates to develop local strategies for biological control of mosquitoes in Mexico .This has also been observed by Pernía et al . (2007) in Venezuela , where this copepod species was evaluated as a biological control of larval stages of Anopheles together with its congener M. meridianus Kiefer, 1926 . Both species of Mesocyclops were shown to have a similar predatory potential.