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Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue Marcus 1936

Description

18. Diphascon (Diphascon) pingue (Marcus, 1936)

Minsk (7 moss samples: 60 specimens + 2 exuvia); Zhodino (3 moss samples: 101 specimens); Margoitsy (3 moss samples: 30 specimens + 2 exuvia). The specimens fit the description of Pilato & Binda (1997/98) in both qualitative and metric characters. The species, considered cosmopolitan, was already recorded from Belarus.

Notes

Published as part of Pilato, Giovanni, Kiosya, Yevgen, Lisi, Oscar & Sabella, Giorgio, 2012, New records of Eutardigrada from Belarus with the description of three new species, pp. 39-60 in Zootaxa 3179 on page 43, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.279945

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References

  • Marcus, E. (1936) Tardigrada. In: Gruyter. W. de (Ed.), Das Tierreich, Berlin und Leipzig, 66, 1 - 340.
  • Pilato, G. & Binda, M. G. (1997 / 98) A comparison of Diphascon (D.) alpinum Murray, 1906, D. (D.) chilenense Plate, 1889 and D. (D.) pingue Marcus, 1936 (Tardigrada), and description of a new species. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 236, 181 - 185.