Milnesium tardigradum trispinosa Rahm, 1932

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 35

77. Milnesium tardigradum trispinosa Rahm, 1932 [T]

Milnesium tardigradum Doy. 1840 var trispinosum var. nov . ( Rahm 1931, 1932) Terra typica: Chile (South America)

Brazil:

• 23°32′S, 46°38′W; 750 m asl: Type Locality: São Paulo State, neighbourhood of São Paulo, mosses. Rahm (1931, 1932)

Chile:

• 33°20′S, 70°36′W; 1,400 m asl: Type Locality: Region RM Metropolitana (Región Metropolitana de Santiago), Santiago de Chile and vicinity, Manquehue Mt., dry soil and mosses. Rahm (1931, 1932)

Record numbers: Brazil: 1, Chile 1; total: 2.

Remarks: Subspecies reported from single localities in Chile and Brazil. If the three dorsal spines that define this taxon are not an artefact ( i.e. cuticular folds observed in some Milnesium species), the subspecies should be elevated to a species level, however this requires a redescription based on type material (Michalczyk et al. 2012ab).