Tardigrades from Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina, South America) with descriptions of two new Macrobiotidae species
Author
Roszkowska, Milena
Author
Stec, Daniel
Author
Ciobanu, Daniel Adrian
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
text
Zootaxa
2016
4105
3
243
260
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4105.3.2
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1175-5326
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Mesobiotus szeptyckii
(
Kaczmarek & Michalczyk, 2009a
)
Localities and number of specimens.
I (1 and
5 eggs
), II (132, 28 exuviae and
51 eggs
), III (34 and
50 eggs
), XI (13 and
15 eggs
), XII (5 and
1 egg
), XIV (
4 eggs
), XV (5 and
4 eggs
), XVIII (1 and 1 exuvium), XX (14 and
2 eggs
), XXVI (6 and
1 egg
)
Remarks.
This species, reported only from
Argentina
(
Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009a
; Kaczmarek
et al.
2015), belongs to
Mes. harmsworthi
group.
Macrobiotus szeptyckii
is extremely similar to
Mes. tehuelchensis
Rossi
et al.
2009
described in the same year and from the same region, so these two species could be synonymous.