Genus Piguetiella

Sperber, 1939

Type species Nais blanci Piguet, 1906a
Number of species 4. In NWE, one species:
Piguetiella blanci (Piguet, 1906a)

Description
Naidids with small or lacking hair chaetae, besides crotchets in dorsal bundles beginning from VI. Spermathecal chaetae in V (not known in the other Naidini).

Distribution
Holarctic, China.

Ecology
In freshwater.

Reproduction
Mostly asexual, by paratomy (budding). Mature individuals and sexual reproduction rare or seasonal.

Literature
Sperber, 1939: 1-3; Sperber, 1948: 151; Brinkhurst and Jamieson, 1971: 354; Chekanovskaya, 1981: 239-240; Hrabe, 1981: 54; Kasprzak, 1981: 130.

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