Flavalona rustica americana ( Flössner & Frey, 1970 )

Sinev, Artem Y. & Dumont, Henri J., 2016, Revision of the costata-group of Alona s. lato (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) confirms its generic status, European Journal of Taxonomy 223, pp. 1-38 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2016.223
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3853374
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scientific name	Flavalona rustica americana ( Flössner & Frey, 1970 )
status

Treatment

Flavalona rustica americana ( Flössner & Frey, 1970) comb. nov.

Alona rustica americana Flössner & Frey, 1970: 326–328 View in CoL , figs 1–2, 5.

Differential diagnosis

Flavalona rustica americana comb. nov. differs from the nominal subspecies in the morphology of the male postabdomen, which lacks the basal spine on the postabdominal claw and has wider clusters of distal setules.

Type material

Holotype

♀ in the Natural History Museum , London, United Kingdom, no. 1969.5.27.1.

Allotype

♁ in the Natural History Museum, London, United Kingdom, same number.

Type locality

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Channel between Martin and Oliver lakes, La Grange Co., Indiana.

Distribution

Canada and U.S.A. Flössner & Frey (1970) considered all North American populations of Flavalona rustica comb. nov. belonging to F. rustica Americana comb. nov..