Macrobiotus humilis Binda & Pilato, 2001

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, Zootaxa 4284 (1), pp. 1-74 : 46

127. Macrobiotus humilis Binda & Pilato, 2001 sensu lato [T]

Macrobiotus cf. humilis Binda and Pilato, 2001 ? ( Gąsiorek et al. 2017)

Terra typica : Sri Lanka (Asia)

Tunisia:

• 36°43'33''N, 08°44'04''E; 362 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, Beni M'tir, forest, moss on soil. Gąsiorek et al. (2017)

• 36°43'20''N, 08°40'58''E; 668 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, Beni M'tir, forest, moss on soil. Gąsiorek et al. (2017)

• 36°43'19''N, 08°43'30''E; 474 m asl: Jendouba Governorate, Beni M'tir, forest, moss on soil. Gąsiorek et al. (2017)

Record numbers. Tunisia: 3; total: 3.

Remarks. Like other members of the hufelandi group, this species requires careful taxonomic analysis, including egg morphology, to properly differentiate the individual species (see Bertolani & Rebecchi 1993 for the review). This recently described species is recorded from the type locality and this tentative report (marked as cf.) from Tunisia ( Gąsiorek et al. 2017).