Macrocyclops albidus (Jurine, 1820)

Suárez-Morales, Eduardo, Mendoza, Fredy & Mercado-Salas, Nancy, 2010, A new Allocyclops (Crustacea, Copepoda, Cyclopoida) from bromeliads and records of freshwater copepods from Mexico, Zoosystema 32 (3), pp. 393-407 : 395

Macrocyclops albidus (Jurine, 1820)

MATERIAL EXAMINED. –– Mexico. El Castillo, Jalapa, Veracruz (19°32’45”N, 96°51’44”W), altitude 1140 m, 18.IX.2007, Ruth Hernández Xoliot, 8 adult ♀♀, 2 copepodites (ECO-CHZ-05502).

REMARKS

This widespread species has been recorded from different habitats; very common in North America (Williamson & Reid 2001). In Mexico it has been reported from Aguascalientes, Campeche, Chiapas, Coahuila, Distrito Federal, Guerrero, Mexico, Michoacán, Nuevo León, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosí, Tabasco and Yucatan (Suárez-Morales & Reid 1998). Because of its large size and predating behaviour, it has been advanced as a potentially useful species for mosquito control in tropical and subtropical America ( Rawlins et al. 1997; Rey et al. 2004; Suárez-Delgado et al. 2005).

Subfamily CYCLOPINAE Rafinesque, 1815