Aglaodiaptomus is a genus of copepods in the family Diaptomidae. They are often bright red or blue due to carotenoid pigments.
Conservation status Species distributions are known very imprecisely, and two species are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List (marked VU below); both are endemic to the United States. A. kingsburyae was described from "a roadside ditch in Oklahoma and a pool and a pond in Texas", while A. marshianus was described from Lake Jackson, Florida.
Species The genus Aglaodiaptomus contains 15 species.
Aglaodiaptomus atomicus DeBiase & Taylor, 1997 Aglaodiaptomus clavipes (Schacht, 1897) Aglaodiaptomus clavipoides M. S. Wilson, 1955 Aglaodiaptomus conipedatus (Marsh, 1907) Aglaodiaptomus dilobatus M. S. Wilson, 1958 Aglaodiaptomus forbesi Light, 1938 Aglaodiaptomus kingsburyae A. Robertson, 1975 Aglaodiaptomus leptopus (S. A. Forbes, 1882) Aglaodiaptomus lintoni (S. A. Forbes, 1893) Aglaodiaptomus marshianus M. S. Wilson, 1953 Aglaodiaptomus pseudosanguineus (Turner, 1921) Aglaodiaptomus saskatchewanensis M. S. Wilson, 1958 Aglaodiaptomus savagei DeBiase & Taylor, 2000 Aglaodiaptomus spatulocrenatus (Pearse, 1906) Aglaodiaptomus stagnalis (S. A. Forbes, 1882)
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