Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840

Gąsiorek, Piotr, Vončina, Katarzyna, Kristensen, Reinhardt Møbjerg & Michalczyk, Łukasz, 2021, Fig. 7 in Fig. 4. A in Saphonecrus globosus Schweger and Tang 2015, Zoological Studies (Zool. Stud.) 60 (70), pp. 1-45 : 4

Genus: Echiniscus C.A.S. Schultze, 1840 Echiniscus blumi Richters, 1903 sensu lato

Material examined: 18 adult females on slides TW.007.20, TW.009.02–5. Three specimens from each sample were preserved for further molecular analyses.

Remarks: A cold stenothermic species, thus it is common in the Arctic, often inhabiting lower elevations (<1000 m asl) in the temperate zone, but in the tropical and subtropical zone found only at high altitudes ( McInnes 1994). The still unsolved species discrimination within the Echiniscus blumi-canadensis complex ( Guil and Giribet 2009) makes this a sensu lato record.