with a description of Macrobiotus garynahi sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: richtersi group) Author Kaczmarek, Łukasz Author Michalczyk, Łukasz Author Diduszko, Dawid text Zootaxa 2005 1053 35 45 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.170045 e2e07710-a3e2-4820-b5b6-48b84abd90f3 1175­5326 170045 Milnesium tardigradum Doyére Material examined: 2 specimens , Russia , Irkutsk Province, East Sayany Mts., 1700 m asl, Arshan, Tunkin Valley, taiga, lichen from Larix sp., 11.08.2004 ; leg. D. Diduszko, 8 specimens , Russia , Irkutsk Province, northern part Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal, taiga, lichen from stone, near the coast, 05.08.2004 ; leg. D. Diduszko Acknowledgments This work was partially supported by a grant to the first and second author from the European Commission's programme 'Transnational Access to Major Research Infrastructures' to SYNTHESYS (grant no. DK­TAF­1163). We want to thanks to Professor Giovanni Pilato ( Italy ) for loaning us the type material of M. vanescens and two specimens of Echiniscus quadrispinosus . We are also grateful to Dr. Denis Tumanov ( Russia ) for the additional information on the morphology of M. alekseevi . Dr. Wojciech Magowski ( Poland ) made the microscope with phase contrast available to us.