New evidence indicating the presence of the genus Branchipus schaeffer, 1766 (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) in the Eastern Balkans

Widely distributed in Europe, the genus Branchipus is found only at several localities in the Balkans. One locality in Western Macedonia is inhabited by B. intermedius (the only known locality of this species known other than the type locality in Romania), the others by B. schaefferi.