Monospilus dispar Sars, 1862

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 : 16

Monospilus dispar Sars, 1862 .

Rare in studied material, a single individual occurred in a lake (S6) in Hunan. M. dispar is associated with a sandy littoral. The species was described from Norway and recorded throughout the world, but recent studies showed that in the Neotropics it is replaced by sibling-species; the taxonomic status of other tropical records is questionable. In Eurasia, M. dispar is common in cold and temperate regions, rather rare in tropics. For a description see Alonso (1996).