Isohypsibius tuberculatus ( Plate, 1888 ) sensu

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 60

150. Isohypsibius tuberculatus ( Plate, 1888) sensu lato [T]

M. tuberculatus Plate ( Murray & Wailes 1913)

Hypsibius tuberculatus Plate ( Iharos 1963)

H. (I.) tuberculatus ( Mihelčič 1967)

H. (I.) tuberculatus ( Mihelčič 1972)

H. (I.) tuberculatus ( Plate, 1888) ( Claps & Rossi 1981)

Terra typica: Germany (Europe)

Argentina:

• 41°12′S, 71°50′W; 1,000 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Tronador (Ventisqueros) [Ventisquero Negro del Cerro Tronador], mosses form dry soil and lichens on moist rocks below the glacier (2 samples). Mihelčič (1967)

• 41°13′S, 71°30′W; 2,250 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Nahuel Huapí National Park, Cerro Catedral, very wet, mosses on leaf litter in the forest. Claps & Rossi (1981)

• 41°59′S, 71°31′W; 360 m asl: Rio Negro Province, El Bolsón, foot of Piltriquitron Mt., mosses on cliffs. Iharos (1963)

• 42°13′S, 71°42′W; 220 m asl: Chubut Province, El Turbio, Puelo Lake, mosses on bark of trees Nothofagus dombeyi - Libocedrus chilensis forest near lake. Iharos (1963)

• Undefined localities cited according Mihelčič (1967), shaded and wet, mosses and lichens on soil, dry and wet tufts and rosette plants on rocks and thin and thick wet layer (5 samples). Mihelčič (1972)

Bolivia:

• 14°49′S, 69°04′W; 11–12,000 ft asl / 3,350–3,650 m asl: La Paz Department, Pelechuco. Murray & Wailes (1913)

Record numbers: Argentina: 5, Bolivia: 1; total: 6.

Remarks: Nominal species for the tuberculatus- group with a long history of major taxonomic confusion. This species has mainly a Holarctic distribution ( McInnes 1994a), and thus the South American records require further analyses.