Salina hermana Mari-Mutt, 1987

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13. Salina hermana Mari-Mutt, 1987

Type locality. Locality 17 and 18 ( Mari-Mutt, 1987a: 370).

Records from Colombia. Locality 17 and 18 ( Mari-Mutt 1987a: 370).

Distribution. Brazil and Colombia ( Mari-Mutt 1987a; Oliveira et al. 2018; Mari-Mutt et al. 1997 –2023; Bellinger et al. 1996 –2023).

Remarks. In Oliveira et al. (2018) S. hermana was mistakenly identified as Salina tristani Denis, 1931 . The specimens from Brazil actually have the same morphology of S. hermana , except by m1 chaeta present in second thoracic segment, and p3p and p4 chaetae absent in third thoracic segment, differences which are probably intraspecific variations ( Mari-Mutt 1987a). On the other hand, S. tristani has extra chaetae on the second thoracic segment to the first abdominal segment compared to the Brazilian specimens (see Mari-Mutt, 1987b). Thus, all records of S. tristani from Brazil ( Oliveira et al. 2018) are herein transferred to S. hermana .