Diphascon higginsi Binda, 1971

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, Zootaxa 3923 (1), pp. 1-107 : 37

83. Diphascon higginsi Binda, 1971 [T]

Diphascon (Diphascon) higginsi Binda, 1971 ( Garitano-Zavala 1995) D. (D.) higginsi ( Garitano-Zavala 1996)

Terra typica: Morocco (Africa)

Bolivia:

• 16°11'S, 68°35'W; 3,680–4,000 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Huarina, moorland floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)

• 16°13'S, 68°13'W; 4,550–4,700 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)

• 16°18'S, 68°17'W; 4,300–4,400 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Wila Kunka, high Andean floor, cushion moss. Gritano-Zavala (1995, 1996)

• 16°20'S, 68°23'W; 4,650–4,700m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, La Cumbre, subnival floor. cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996)

Colombia:

• 11°06′20.0′′N, 74°03′50.0′′W; 2,200 m asl: Magdalena Department, Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, between La Tagua and Cuchilla de San Lorenzo, sub-Andean forest, moss ( Calymperaceae sp.) and lichen on rocks (2 samples). Lisi et al. (2014)

Record numbers: Bolivia: 4, Colombia: 1; total: 5.

Remarks: Species belong to the nobilei group in which few new species were described from Europe in recent years (Pilato & Bertolani 2005, Pilato et al. 2005). This species has a mainly European distribution with single reports from New Zealand, North and South America ( McInnes 1994a). Non-European records should be carefully re-examined, using integrative (molecular and morphology) taxonomy, as these could represent a complex of cryptic species.