Order Laevicaudata Linder, 1945 Family Lynceidae Baird, 1845. A species belonging to Lynceidae was reported from outskirts of Pune city, Maharashtra for the first time by Padhye et al. (2011b) but the authors could not confirm the species status. We now confirm this species to be Lynceus alleppeyensis Balaraman & Nayar 2004 which has been described earlier from South India (Kerala) (Balaraman & Nayar 2004) thus extending its range by nearly 1000 km northwards (Fig. 2). Characteristic traits such as the female and male rostrum, telson morphology and male claspers match with the original description (Fig.3: A–D).

Published as part of Padhye, Sameer, Rabet, Nicolas & Ghate, Hemant, 2015, First faunal inventory of large branchiopods (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of Western Maharashtra, India with taxonomical and distributional comments, pp. 208-222 in Zootaxa 3904 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/241884