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Issue: Vol. 4317 No. 1: 1 Sept. 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-09-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4317.1.3
Page range: 79–94
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 3

Epibionts on Hydraena species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) from high mountain rivers of Pyrenees (Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park), with the description of a new species

Dep. Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University, c/ José Antonio Novais, 12. 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Dep. Biodiversity & Evolutionary Biology, National Museum of Natural History (MNCN-CSIC), c/ José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Institute of Agricultural Sciences (ICA-CSIC), c/ Serrano 115, dpdo., 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Dep. Ecology & Hydrology, Faculty of Biology, University of Murcia, Espinardo Campus, 30100 Murcia, Spain.
Dep. Zoology, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Complutense University, c/ José Antonio Novais, 12. 28040 Madrid, Spain.
Laboratory of Histology and Procedures for Biological Samples, National Museum of Natural History (CSIC), c/ José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.
Association of Environmental Sciences (ACA). c/ General Ramírez de Madrid, 11, 4º-dcha, 28020 Madrid, Spain.
Laboratory of Protozoology, Dep. Comparative Biology, Faculty of Sciences, UNAM, Mexico.
Coleoptera Epibiosis aquatic beetles freshwater protozoa suctorian ciliates Tokophrya Discophrya

Abstract

Macroinvertebrate samples collected during spring-summer 2013 in high mountain rivers of the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park (Pyrenees) contained several Hydraena species (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae) where we found two genera of suctorian ciliates as epibionts: Tokophrya and Discophrya. The individuals of the genus Tokophrya probably belong to species Tokophrya stenostyla, being the first time that this species is observed attached on arthropods. Suctorians of the genus Discophrya were identified as a new species called Discophrya ordesae sp. n. The presence and abundance of epibionts was discussed in the frame of the biological and ecological characteristics of the species of Hydraena where they were found.

 

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