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· Inner portion of basipodite of 1st leg without seta
· With patterns of hair on 5th segment.
· Caudal rami without hairs (Alekseev, 2002a).
137 a. Maxillulary palp with group of spines. Can be used as a biological control agent of Aedes aegypti (Linnaeus) (Panogadia-Reyes et al., 2004a). Found in all types of water bodies: fishponds, ricefields, lakes and reservoirs, eutrophic ponds with heavy micro algae, marshes, and brackish and saline waters. Common.
- Philippines.
Mesocyclops ogunnus, ONABAMIRO, 1957
[1986a, 2001d, 2004a]137 b. Maxillulary palp without group of spines.....................138.
138 a. Genital double segment bare on dorsal surface, without small hairs........................................................139.
138 b. Genital double segment with small hairs on anterior part
of dorsal surface (pilose). Maxillulary palp without group of spines. Body length 800-1200 μm. In ponds, rainwater tanks, and pelagic zone and among plants of large lakes.
- Not recorded from the Philippines.
Distributed in Java, Malaysia, Burma, Indochina, China,
and Taiwan.
Mesocyclops thermocyclopoides, HARADA, 1931
(1981c, 2002a, 2003a).
139 a. Transverse ducts of genital double segment directed towards each other at straight angle before connecting with copulatory duct. Small spines present at implantation of lateralmost terminal caudal seta. Maxillulary palp without group of spines. Genital double segment bare on dorsal surface. Body length 900-1600 μm. Found in shallow ditches, rainwater tanks, jars, swamps, lakeshores, ponds, rice fields, and in plankton in deep lakes.
- Not recorded from the Philippines.
Distributed in New Guinea through Indonesia and Malaysia
as far as Indochina.
Mesocyclops affinis VAN DE VALDE, 1987
(2003a).
Following species is placed in the Pseudospinolosus group by Fernando (2002a). Since it according to Ueda & Reid (2003a) doesn't posses these, it is here places in the Thermocyclopides group.
139 b. Transverse ducts of genital double segment directed towards each other at acute angle before connecting with copulatory duct. Small spines present at implantation of lateralmost terminal caudal seta. Maxillulary palp without group of spines. Genital double segment bare on dorsal surface. Body length 1000-1300 μm. Littoral zone of lakes, ponds, rice fields, streams, ditches, water containers, wells, and also found in coral gravel pits.
– Not recorded from the Philippines. Distributed in
Australia, New Guinea, Indochina, South China,
and Japan.
Mesocyclops woutersi VAN DE VELDE, 1987
(syn. M. guangxiensis Reid & Kay, 1992)
(2002a, 2003a).
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