Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840

Meyer, Harry A. & Hinton, Juliana G., 2009, The Tardigrada of southern Africa, with the description of Minibiotus harrylewisi, a new species from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae), African Invertebrates 50 (2), pp. 255-255 : 266

Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840

Material examined: SOUTH AFRICA & LESOTHO: 15 specimens, SP, HGP and TPGR, in foliose lichens ( SMLA accession numbers 9340, 9342, 9343, 9349, 9352, 9356–9358, 9361, 9362). Present in the same samples were Hypsibius convergens , Ramazzottius theroni , Macrobiotus iharosi , Minibiotus harrylewisi sp. n., Minibiotus intermedius , and Echiniscus duboisi .

Distribution: Milnesium tardigradum is a cosmopolitan species and has previously been found in Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Botswana (Table 1).