Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America
Author
Kaczmarek, Łukasz
Author
Michalczyk, Łukasz
Author
Mcinnes, Sandra J.
text
Zootaxa
2015
3923
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1
107
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
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111.
Pilatobius brevipes
(Marcus, 1936
)
sensu lato
[T]
H.
(
C.
)
breuipes
Marcus, 1936
(
Claps & Rossi 1981
)
Hypsibius brevipes
Marcus, 1936
(
Iharos, 1982
)
Diphascon
(
Diphascon
)
brevipes
(Marcus, 1930) (
Gritano-Zavala 1995
)
D.
(
D.
)
brevipes
(
Gritano-Zavala 1996
)
Terra typica
:
Hungary
(Europe)
Argentina
:
•
41°08′S
,
71°20′W
;
950 m
asl
: Rio Negro Province, Cerro Runge, very wet, mosses from forest.
Claps & Rossi (1981)
•
54°39′S
,
68°30′W
;
800 m
asl
: Tierra del Fuego Province, National Park Ushuaia [Tierra del Fuego National Park], soil.
Iharos (1982)
Bolivia
:
•
16°11'S
,
68°35'W
;
3,680–4,000 m
asl
: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Huarina, moorland floor, cushion moss.
Garitano-Zavala (1995
,
1996
)
•
16°13'S
,
68°13'W
;
4,550–4,700 m
asl
: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss.
Garitano-Zavala (1995
,
1996
)
•
16°18'S
,
68°17'W
;
4,300–4,400 m
asl
: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Wila Kunka, high Andean floor, cushion moss.
Gritano-Zavala (1995, 1996)
Record numbers:
Argentina
: 2,
Bolivia
: 3;
total: 5.
Remarks:
A largely Palaearctic species also reported from single localities in North and South
America
(
McInnes 1994a
), which could suggest a species complex.