Key for identification of Cladocera of the subfamily Aloninae (Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from South-East Asia
Author
Sinev, Artem Y.
text
Zootaxa
2016
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4200.4.1
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Monospilus
Sars, 1862
Parthenogenetic female short description.
Body round in lateral view (
Fig. 14A
), only weakly compressed laterally. The only genus of
Aloninae
in South-East Asia retaining valves from the previous molts and lacking eye. Posteroventral corner of valves without denticles. Rostrum short; rostrum tip truncated with four blunt denticles. Single small, rounded main head pore; lateral pores absent. Labral keel of moderate width, with wavy anterior margin and a rounded apex, with cluster of setulae on posterior margin.
Postabdomen short and wide, with anal margin 1.5 times longer than postanal, without defined distal angle and distal margin. Preanal angle and postanal angles well-defined. Postanal denticles short. Postanal lateral groups composed by short thick setulae. Postabdominal claw short, curved, with moderately long basal spine.
Antennule without lateral aesthetascs; all terminal aesthetascs of similar length. Antennal seta without basal peg. Antenna with thin seta on basal segment of endopod. Spine on basal segment of exopod much longer than middle segment. Spines on apical segments much longer than apical segments. IDL of limb I with three setae; seta 1 very short, setae 2–3 thin, armed with strong spinulae.
Single species,
Monospilus dispar
Sars, 1862
(
Fig. 4
A). Length of adult up to
0.5 mm
. Rare in the region, found in streams on sandy bottom. Probably a species-complex;
M. dispar
is common in Holarctic, but was also reported from Africa,
Australia
and
South America
.
In South-East Asia known from North
Vietnam
(
Thanh
et al
., 1980
) and
Hainan
(Sinev
et al
., 2015). For detailed description see
Alonso, 1996
.