Notopterophorus papilio Hesse, 1864

Kim, Il-Hoi & Boxshall, Geoff A., 2020, Untold diversity: the astonishing species richness of the Notodelphyidae (Copepoda: Cyclopoida), a family of symbiotic copepods associated with ascidians (Tunicata), Megataxa 4 (1), pp. 1-6 : 142

Notopterophorus papilio Hesse, 1864

( Fig. 92D, E )

Material examined. 4 ♀♀ (MNHN-IU-2018-1817) from Ascidia mentula Müller, 1776 , Glenan; 3 ♀♀, 5 ♂♂ (MNHN-IU-2018-1818) and 1 dissected ♀ from Ascidia aximensis Miller, 1953 , Sierra Leone, 03 October 1990; 12 ♀♀ (MNHN-IU-2009-2466) from A. mentula , Port Antifer, Le Havre, France, Breton coll., November 2008.

Remarks. In some of the females examined here the dorsal wing-like extension of the first pedigerous somite lacks filiform processes ( Fig. 92D ), and the wings of the second pedigerous somite have only posterior filiform processes with the anterior processes either rudimentary ( Fig. 92D ) or lacking ( Fig. 92E ).

Figures

FIGURE 92. Habitus of three species of Notopterophorus. A, female N. auritus (Thorell, 1859), right; B, C, female N. elongatus Buchholz, 1869, right and dorsal; D, E, female N. papilio Hesse, 1864, right and ventral. Scale bars: 0.5 mm.