Simocephalus (Simocephalus) mixtus Sars, 1903

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

Simocephalus (Simocephalus) mixtus Sars, 1903

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A common phytophilous species inhabiting lotic waterbodies of any type in Hunan and Hubei, is abundant in both spring and autumn. Few ephippial females were found in spring in a lake (S24). A cosmopolitan species found in North Eurasia , East Asia, North Africa and North America. In China S. mixtus was recorded in Heilongjiang Province only, but not in the central part of the country ( Xiang et al. 2015). However, the species could be misidentified as the widely distributed S. vetuloides Sars, 1898 . For a description see Orlova-Bienkowskaja, 2001.