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Haplohexapodibius seductor Pilato & Beasley 1987

Description

130. Haplohexapodibius seductor Pilato & Beasley, 1987 [T]

Hexapodibius beasleyi sp. nov. (Maucci 1988)

Terra typica: Oklahoma, USA (North America)

Chile:

• 50°59′S, 73°00′W; 1,200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Torres del Paine National Park, mosses on trees and rocks, nearly all in half sunlight. Maucci (1988)

Record numbers: Chile: 1; total: 1.

Remarks: A rare species with a disjunct distribution of Chile (locus typicus), USA, and South Africa (Kaczmarek et al 2006).

Notes

Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 3923 (1) on page 55, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936

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References

  • Pilato, G. & Beasley, C. W. (1987) Haplohexapodibius seductor n. gen. n. sp. (Eutardigrada Calohypsibiidae) with remarks on the systematic position of the new genus. Animalia, 14, 65 - 71.
  • Maucci, W. (1988) Tardigrada from Patagonia (Southern South America) with description of three new species. Revista Chilena de Entomologia, 16, 5 - 13.