Echiniscus wendti Richters 1903

38. Echiniscus wendti Richters, 1903 [T] Echiniscus wendti (Iharos 1969a) Terra typica: Svalbard (Spitsbergen) Cameroon: • 04°10′N, 09°13′E; 1,300–1,500 m asl: Southwest Region, Mount Cameroon National Park, Mount Cameroon, rainforest, moss on tree. Iharos (1969a) Record numbers. Cameroon: 1; total: 1. Remarks. This member of the arctomys group (see E. reticulatus above) has a largely Holarctic distribution (McInnes 1994; Kaczmarek et al. 2016); all other records need confirmation (Kaczmarek et al. 2015).Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on page 18, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/101040