Speocyclops Kiefer, 1937

Dole-Olivier, Marie-José, Galassi, Diana M. P., Fiers, Frank, Malard, Florian, Martin, Patrick, Martin, Dominique & Marmonier, Pierre, 2015, Biodiversity in mountain groundwater: the Mercantour National Park (France) as a European hotspot, Zoosystema 37 (4), pp. 529-550 : 538-539

Genus Speocyclops Kiefer, 1937

Speocyclops racovitzai racovitzai

( Chappuis, 1923)

Cyclops racovitzai Chappuis, 1923: 587 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Site 13: 1 specimen. Material deposited at IRScNB, I.G. 31589.

REMARKS

This species is widely distributed in France, as stygobiotic element, mostly being recorded from karstic habitats.Its presence in the Mercantour park was expected, since S. racovitzai is known from the Pyrenean area with several subspecies according to Chappuis & Kiefer (1952), who pulverized the nominotypical species into eight subspecies, all recorded from western France.

Speocyclops kieferi

Lescher-Moutoué, 1968

Speocyclops kieferi Lescher-Moutoué, 1968: 170 .

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — Site 13: 1 specimen, site 21: 4 specimens, site 27: 1 specimen, site 43: 1 specimen. Material deposited at IRScNB, I.G. 31589.

REMARK

This stygobiotic species is known from several localities in France. It was first collected there in 1964 at 1050 m a.s.l. at the Col de la Crouzette (Ariège) in the hypothelminorheic habitat ( Mestrov 1962) and subsequently sampled in several springs of the Sourroque Massif (Ariège) and in the Malsang spring in Albi (Tarn) (Lescher-Moutoué 1968). Bou (1968) also collected this species from the Massif Central ( France) in the cave Causses de Limogne and in the hyporheic zone of the Tarn basin. Morphologically, this species is close to S. racovitzai according to Lescher-Moutoué (1968).