Moina macrocopa (Straus, 1820)

Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, Zootaxa 5380 (1), pp. 1-25 : 11

Moina macrocopa (Straus, 1820) .

A planktonic species, associated with temporary water bodies. Common in rice fields (S27, S29, S31, A38); males and ephippial females occurred in two rice fields (S27, S31). A widespread Holarctic species complex ( Bekker et al. 2016; Montoliu-Elena et al. 2019), common in China ( Xiang et al. 2015). For a description of M. macrocopa s.l. see Goulden (1968).