Trinema lineare, Mongolia, 2024, scale bars 10 µm, photos Ferry Siemensma (LM) and Izabela Zawiska (SEM)
Hyalosphenia insecta Harnisch, 1938
Diagnosis: Shell flask-shaped, resembling H. elegans, but with numerous small regular undulations; compressed, completely organic, transparent, colorless; two minute pores, one at each side, in the base of the neck; aperture usually with a thickened lip.
Dimensions: Shell length 68-84 µm; width 29-42 µm.
Habitat: In Sphagnum and other mosses. Europe, Mongolia (Łuców et al., 2024).
Hyalosphenia insecta – Cerveno, Croatia, 2018
Hyalosphenia insecta, Mongolia, 2023
Hyalosphenia insecta, Mongolia, 2023
Hyalosphenia insecta – Tirol, Austria
Hyalosphenia insecta, 84 µm – Tirol, Austria
Hyalosphenia insecta, (elegans?) 92 µm
Hyalosphenia insecta, Mongolia, 2024