Echiniscus pusae Marcus 1928

30. Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928 [T] Echiniscus sp. (Murray 1907a) Echiniscus pusae nom. nov. (Marcus 1928) Echiniscus pusae Marcus, 1928 (Pilato et al. 2003) Terra typica: Republic of South Africa (Africa) Democratic Republic of Congo: • 01°10′S, 28°28′E; 1,000 m asl: North Kivu Province, outskirts of Mohanga, liverwort (Plagiochila poRelloides). Pilato et al. (2003) Republic of South Africa: • 29°44′S, 22°44′E: Type Locality: Undefined locality, Cape Colony [Cape Province]. (Murray 1907a), Marcus (1928) Record numbers. Democratic Republic of Congo: 1, Republic of South Africa: 1; total: 2. Remarks. Only reported from Africa and Indonesia (Lombok) (McInnes 1994); a possible tropical/ subtropical distribution.Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, pp. 1-74 in Zootaxa 4284 (1) on pages 14-15, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4284.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/101040