Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840
Author
Moreno, Antonio
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
Author
García, Mario Alberto
Author
Flores, José Juan
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
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Zootaxa
2019
2019-11-04
4691
5
501
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journal article
24986
10.11646/zootaxa.4691.5.5
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Pseudechiniscus
cf.
juanitae
Material examined:
One specimen: Piedmont of Sierra Las Mitras (
25°44′55.57′′N
,
100°24′11.19′′W
,
ca.
632 m
asl), Monterrey,
Nuevo Leon
,
Mexico
. Lichen (
Physcia stellaris
) on trees (
Parkinsonia aculeta
and
Celtis pallida
), coll. Antonio Moreno
-
Talamantes,
7 August 2014
.
Comments:
Pseudechiniscus juanitae
de Barros, 1939
was described from
Brazil
and later reported from
Costa Rica
and
Mexico
(
Kaczmarek
et al
. 2014
, 2015), but the diagnosis for this species is very unclear, and this is why we report our specimen as
confer
to the nominal taxon.