In April 2020, I found a specimen of an Ophryoglena species among decomposing plant masses in the Simmelried, which has a combination of features that do not match any of the species described so far. The main feature is the very thin and small watch-glass body in the oral apparatus (s. figs. 3 and 4) as well as a second, circular structure, which is located anteriorly to the watch-glass body (s. figs. 3 and 4). This second, structure has not yet been found in any of the described Ophryoglena species. It is circular with a diameter of 2.8 µm and, like the watch glass body, very delicate. This Ophryoglena species has a contractile vacuole on the right side, slightly below the equator. It has 4 excretory pores (s. fig. 5). The macronucleus is clearly ellipsoid with an attached micronucleus (s. fig. 2). The extrusomes are rod-shaped with a length of about 3.8 µm (s. fig. 7). They are not evenly distributed over the body. In the anterior half they are much more scattered than in the posterior half, where they form a dense fringe.

On the basis of this combination of features, which is not described in the literature for any Ophryoglena species, I believe that this is a previously undescribed species Ophryoglena nov. spec.