Limnesia (Halolimnesia), Pešić & Smit & Saboori, 2012

Pešić, Vladimir, Smit, Harry & Saboori, Alireza, 2012, 3330, Zootaxa 3330, pp. 1-67 : 30

Subgenus Halolimnesia subgen. nov.

Diagnosis. Sixth segment of I- and II-L modified in male, distally tapering, and with multiple irregular constrictions at the ventral margin. Ac relatively small, Ac-2 smaller than Ac-1 and Ac-3, the distance between Ac-1 and Ac-2 much larger than between Ac-2 and Ac-3; genital plates in male separate; numbers of genital setae low (5-6 in male, 3 in female). Ventral seta of P-2 heavy, peg-shaped, inserted slightly laterally.

Type species. Limnesia diversipes sp. nov.

Etymology. The new subgenus is named for its occurrence in saline environment.

Remarks. The slightly modified first and especially the second leg, with the sixth segment distally tapering and with multiple irregular constrictions at the ventral margin is very distinctive and will separate members of the subgenus from representatives of all other other subgenera of this genus. Sexual dimorphism in I-L has not been reported in other limnesiids and a modified second leg is found only in Xenolimnesia Smit from Cameroon ( Smit 1994), a genus having the three distal segments highly modified.