Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840

Li, Xiao-Chen, Wang, Da-Yong & Wang, Li-Zhi, 2008, The Tardigrada Fauna Of Hainan Island (Asia: China) With Descriptions Of Two New Species, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56 (2), pp. 293-305 : 296

Milnesium tardigradum Doyère, 1840

Material examined. – Five specimens were collected from Five- Finger Mountain and Mumianshan Mountain, Baisha County.

Remarks. – This species was reported as a new record for China from Beijing Municipality, Shanghai Municipality, Tianjin Municipality, Hebei Province and Shanxi Province (Rahm, 1936–1937a, b; 1937). Next it was reported from Sichuan Province and Yunnan Province (Beasley & Cleveland, 1996) and from Sichuan Province again ( Beasley et al., 2006). This is the first report of this species from Hainan Island.