Attheyella Brady, 1880

Novikov, Aleksandr & Sharafutdinova, Dayana, 2022, Revision of the genus Canthocamptus (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) with a description of a new species from the Lena River Delta (North-eastern Siberia), European Journal of Taxonomy 826 (1), pp. 33-63 : 52

Genus Attheyella Brady, 1880

New combinations

A. howardorum ( Hamond, 1987) comb. nov.; Attheyella sublaevis ( Hamond, 1987) comb. nov.

Remarks

Two Australian species, A. howardorum and A. sublaevis ( Hamond 1987) , must belong to the genus Attheyella on the basis of the following characteristics: 1-segmented exopod of the antenna (character 8), the male P3 endopod ʻAttheyella-likeʼ (character 36), normal setae on the female P5 baseoendopod (character 52), and reduced number of setae on the male P5 eXopod (four instead of siX in the primitive structure, like Bryocamptus , characters 58–59). Placing them in any subgenus is difficult. By morphological characters, these species are close to Attheyella (Neomrazekiella) Özdikmen & Pesce, 2006 ; however, its representatives have not yet been found in the Australian region. In general, the genus Attheyella is in great need of revision, and the boundaries of the subgenera are not precisely defined.