Pseudechiniscus bartkei Węglarska, 1962 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 : 25

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5687926
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scientific name	Pseudechiniscus bartkei Węglarska, 1962 sensu
status	sensu

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56. Pseudechiniscus bartkei Węglarska, 1962 sensu lato [T]

Pseudechiniscus bartkei Weglarska, 1962 View in CoL ( Claps & Rossi 1984, Rossi & Claps 1989) Terra typica: Vietnam (Asia)

Argentina:

• 25°38′S, 65°39′W; 1,250 m asl: Salta Province, road from Cafayate to Salta, mosses on soil. Claps & Rossi (1984)

• 5 4°51′S, 68°29′W; 0 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Tierra del Fuego National Park, Bahia Ensenada, mosses and lichens on rocks. Rossi & Claps (1989)

Record numbers: Argentina: 2; total: 2.

Remarks: The two South American records are the only reports of this species outside the Asian type locality. We suggest the examples from South America should be re-examined as they may belong to a new species.