Egyptian interstitial Copepoda, Harpacticoida with the description of two new species and one new subspecies

Nine species of Copepoda Harpacticoida were found in sandy beachesin Egypt during the period November 1994 to December 1996. Two species of the family Ectinosomatidae are new to science, Arenosetellabassantae n. sp. and Noodtiella toukae n. sp. The genus Noodtiella is new to the fauna of the Mediterranean Sea. One subspecies of the family Paramesochridae is new to science,Kliopsyllus constrictus egyptus n. subsp. The other species found are already known from the Mediterranean: Arenopontia nesaie (Cylindropsyllidae),Phyllopodopsyllus pauli (Tetragonicipitidae),Amphiascus parvus (Diosaccidae) and Nitocra spinipes (Ameiridae). The last two species (A. parvus and N. spinipes) have already been recorded from Egyptian waters. This paper contains descriptions of the two new species and of local variationsin one of the known species, Arenopontia nesaie and the new subspecies Kliopsyllus constrictus egyptus. Two more species could as yet not be identi ed beyond generic level: Alteutha sp. (family Peltidiidae), and Amphiascussp.