Leydigia (Leydigia) louisi louisi Jenkin, 1934

Kotov, Alexey A., Sinev, Artem Y. & Berrios, Viviana Lorena, 2010, The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism 2430, Zootaxa 2430 (1), pp. 1-66 : 55-56

Leydigia (Leydigia) louisi louisi Jenkin, 1934

Leydigia macrodonta var. louisi Jenkin, 1934, p. 283 –285, fig. 14.

Leydigia louisi louisi Jenkin in Kotov et al. 2003, p. 240, figs 1–13; Kotov 2009b, p. 16 –17, figs 1–17.

Materail studied here. Few females from localities 2 and 4.

Diagnosis, description. See Kotov et al., (2003), Kotov (2009b).

Comments. Type locality is "River Makalia, Elmenteita district" ( Jenkin 1934), Rift Valley Province , central Kenya, Africa. Lectotype : female, NHM 2002.701 . Paralectotype : female, NHM 2002.702 ., on same slide as lectotype .

Distribution. Afrotropical zone: from Kenya ( Jenkin 1934) to the southernmost corner of the continent (Kotov 2003), and Neotropical zone: from South Mexico to Argentina, including Patagonia ( Kotov et al. 2003; Elías-Gutiérrez et al. 2006). Now we can add North Chilean high mountain localities to this range. In South America, the taxon is present in temperate lowlands of the southernmost portion of the continent, also in high mountains in tropical latitudes. In tropical lowlands it is absent.