Maliithipon aberrans ( Mielke, 1984a ) Cottarelli & Bruno, 2021

Cottarelli, Vezio & Bruno, Maria Cristina, 2021, Interesting interstitial Paramesochridae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida): Maliithipon wellsi gen. et sp. nov. from the Philippines, M. aberrans (Mielke, 1984) comb. nov from Panama, and M. cf. aberrans (Mielke, 1984) from the Azores, Zootaxa 5051 (1), pp. 68-93 : 80

Maliithipon aberrans ( Mielke, 1984a) comb. nov.

This species was described as Apodopsyllus aberrans by Mielke (1984a) based on three female specimens collected in two sandy beaches on the Pacific Coast of Panama: “ Isla Naos” (two specimens) and “ Isla Melones” (one specimen). The description and the drawings clearly show how this species shares all the characters listed for Maliithipon gen. nov. This species can be distinguished from the type species M. wellsi sp. nov. by several characters ( Table 1 ), some of which are easy to observe, such as the shape and size of caudal rami (shorter and wider in M. aberrans , length/ width: 1), the structure of P5 (more reduced in M. wellsi sp. nov.). To expand the comparison of the two species, we report here the antennulary armature deducted from Mielke’s (1984a: 227) original drawings: 1–[0], 2–[3 bare + 5 pinnate], 3–[3 bare + 3 pinnate], 4–[1 bare + 1 + ae], 5–[1 bare], 6–[1 pinnate], 7–[4 bare + 1 pinnate], 8–[4 bare + ae (acrothek?)].