Macrobiotus, C. A. S. Schultze, 1834

Moreno, Antonio, Roszkowska, Milena, García, Mario Alberto, Flores, José Juan & Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2019, Current knowledge on Mexican tardigrades with a description of Milnesium cassandrae sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Milnesiidae) and discussion on the taxonomic value of dorsal pseudoplates in the genus Milnesium Doyère, 1840, Zootaxa 4691 (5), pp. 501-524 : 515

Macrobiotus cf. acadianus

Material examined: One specimen from Arroyo Blanco (25°51′35.37′′N, 100°31′42.16′′W, ca. 873 m asl), 1 Km at SW of La Purisima, Garcia, Nuevo Leon. Mexico. Moss on tree, coll. Miguel Angel Gonzalez Botello, 1 February 2014. Five specimens from Las Crucitas (24°30′46.62′′N, 99°59′03.91′′W, ca. 2499 m asl), Aramberri, Nuevo Leon. Mexico. Lichen on tree, coll. Miguel Angel Gonzalez Botello, 3 May 2014 .

Comments: Our specimens correspond well with the original description ( Meyer & Domingue 2011), but we did not find the eggs in our material and therefore the final identification is not possible. Meyer & Domingue (2011) described Mac. acadianus from Louisiana, USA, and the species has been reported from Louisiana and Texas, U.S.A. (Meyer 2013; Hinton et al. 2014; Kaczmarek et al. 2014; Meyer et al. 2014). Further samples with eggs are required to confirm whether this is a new species or new record for Mexico.