Diacyclops cohabitatus Monchenko 1980 known only from the groundwater of the Carpathian mountains in Ukraine is redescribedfrom specimens collected in the Danube alluvial plain, the Lobau, at Vienna. In this area two stygobiont species belongingto the D. languidoides - group co-occur as well. D. cohabitatus can be differentiated from these latter Diacyclops specieson the basis of several morphological traits of antennae, P4 and caudal rami. Its relationship with other members of the D. languidoides- group (e.g. D. languidoides goticus) is discussed.

Acanthocyclops sensitivus is a widely distributed European groundwater dwelling cyclopoid. In this study, specimens collected in Austria from the environs of Vienna and the Provinces of Lower Austria and Salzburg are described in detail. A. sensitivus is clearly discernible from other Acanthocyclops species, such as A. venustus, A. gmeineri, A. vernalis and A. robustus, by the morphology of the antennule, ornamentation of the antennal basipodite, the setation of the maxilliped and the seminal receptacle. These differences suggest an only distant relationship between A. sensitivus and the other representatives of this genus (excluding A. parasensitivus).

Elaphoidella plesai n. sp. is described from material collected from cave waters of Austria. According to Apostolov (1985) the new species fits the gracilis group of Elaphoidella s. str., being close to Elaphoidella stammeri Chappuis, 1936. It differs from the nominate species, as well as from other congeners in the same group, by the distinctive morphology and setation of caudal rami, and by the unusual armature of leg 5.