Echiniscus mosaicus Grigarick, Schuster & Nelson, 1983

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 18

34. Echiniscus mosaicus Grigarick, Schuster & Nelson, 1983 [T]

Echiniscus mosaicus Grigarick, Schuster , and Nelson, new species ( Grigarick et al. 1983) Terra typica: Venezuela (South America)

Venezuela:

• 08°38′N, 71°22′W; 2,000 m asl [2,300 m asl]: Type Locality: Region Los Andes, Mérida, La Carbonera, subtropical cloud forest in Sierra Nevada range of Andes, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

• 08°36′N, 71°09′W; 1,627 m asl: Region Los Andes, Mérida, Mérida, Sierra Nevada range of Andes, mosses, lichens or liverworts on plants or mineral substrates. Grigarick et al. (1983)

Record numbers: Venezuela: 2; total: 2.

Remarks: This arctomys group species (see also remarks to E. arctomys above) currently known from Venezuela and USA (Bartels & Nelson 2007, Nelson & Bartels 2007), i.e. a northern Neotropic/ southern Nearctic distribution.