Hemicyclops parilis Moon & Kim, 2010

Lee, Jimin, Chang, Cheon Young & Kim, Il-Hoi, 2022, Symbiotic copepods (Cyclopoida and Siphonostomatoida) collected by light trap from Korea, ZooKeys 1115, pp. 1-71 : 1

Hemicyclops parilis Moon & Kim, 2010

Material examined.

Two ♀♀, Site 11, 20 Aug. 2020; 1 ♀, Site 12, 16 Mar. 2013; 2 ♀♀, 1 ♂, Site 15, 04 Jul. 2020; 1 ♀, Site 20, 05 Jun. 2020; 2 ♀♀, 8 ♂♂, Site 26, 06 Jul. 2016; 1 ♂, Site 33, 11 Aug. 2020.

Remarks.

Due to the close relatedness of this species to H. gomsoensis Ho & Kim, 1992, Moon and Kim (2010) compared it in detail with the latter species in the original description. Moon and Kim (2010) found H. parilis from burrows of unknown invertebrates on the south coast of Korea. The host of this copepod has turned out to be the decapod crustacean Upogebia issaeffi (Balss, 1913). We collected it at six collection sites in this study, which indicates that the decapod host is likely to occur at those sites.