Fefilova E.B.1*, Novikov A.A.2, Chertoprud E.S.3 2024. A new species of the genus Moraria T. Scott et A. Scott, 1893 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from Russian Arctic // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.33. No.1: 53–64 [in English].
1 Institute of Biology, Komi Scientific Centre, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Kommunisticheskaya St. 28, 167982 Syktyvkar, Russia.
2 Kazan Federal University, Kremlyovskaya St. 18, 420008 Kazan, Russia.
3 A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology & Evolution of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky Pr., 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
Elena Fefilova: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9329-3030
Aleksandr Novikov: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2026-2510
Elena Chertoprud: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9874-1610
*Сorresponding author: fefilova@ib.komisc.ru
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.1.05
ABSTRACT. Moraria harbei sp.n. described from a temporary pool in the south-east part of the Bolshezemelskaya tundra, the Komi Republic, north-east of the European part of Russia. During study of harpacticoid fauna composition of some northern Siberian regions (the Lena River delta, Putorana and Anabar Plateaus) a wide distribution of the species eastern of the Urals was revealed. The new species differs from its congeners in presence of cross row spinules in the medial part of inner sides of caudal rami (in female and male), smooth urosomal hyaline membranes without spinules on the back side, thoracic legs structure. We provide barcodes (nucleotide sequences of the COI mtDNA gene) of two specimens of the new species from the Lena River Delta.
KEY WORDS: freshwater fauna, DNA barcoding, Bolshezemelskaya tundra, Komi Republic, Siberia, Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Canthocamptidae, Moraria.