Milnesium granulatum Ramazzotti, 1962a

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 31

74. Milnesium granulatum Ramazzotti, 1962a [T]

Milnesium tardigradum Doy., 1840 granulatum var. nov . ( Ramazzotti 1962a ) Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Chile:

• 30°25′S – 37°45′S [30 ° 40′S, 71 ° 41′W]; 600–620 m asl: Type Locality: Region IV Coquimbo (Región de Coquimbo), Fray Jorge, ca. 420 km on north of Santiago de Chile, temperate rainforest, surrounded by steppe, mosses and lichens on shrubs. Ramazzotti (1962a)

Record numbers: Chile: 1, total: 1.

Remarks: Species reported from Chile (locus typicus) Colombia, Italy, Romania and USA ( Ciobanu et al. 2014; Bartels et al. 2014), such a disjunct distribution suggests a species complex or species crypsis (see Michalczyk et al. 2012a,b for more details).