Parhexapodibius castrii ( Ramazzotti, 1964a )

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 60-61

151. Parhexapodibius castrii ( Ramazzotti, 1964a) [T]

Hexapodibius castrii ( Maucci 1988)

Hypsibius (Calohypsibius) castrii spec. nov. ( Ramazzotti 1964a ) Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Argentina:

• 41°51′S, 71°25′W; 650 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Los Repollos stream, mosses from water. Rossi & Claps (1991)

Chile

• 22°28′S, 68°08′W; 4,150 m asl: Type Locality: Region II Antofagasta, Cerro Pajonal, near Bolivian border, at the entrance of a burrow of rodent ( Lagidium viscacia ) mosses on soil. Ramazzotti (1964a)

• 50°59′S, 73°00′W; 1,200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Torres del Paine National Park, mosses on trees and rocks, nearly all in half sunlight. Maucci (1988)

• 51°34′S, 72°36′W; 200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Ultima Esperanza, near Cueva del Milodón, mosses on rocks, in sunlight. Maucci (1988)

Record numbers: Argentina: 1, Chile: 3; total: 4.

Remarks: This apparently Neotropical species ( McInnes 1994a, Kaczmarek et al. 2014a) has a few doubtful USA records ( Meyer 1967).