19. Echiniscus crassispinosus fasciatus Marcus, 1928 sensu lato [T]

Echiniscus (Echiniscus) crassispinosus fasciatus Marcus, 1913 (de Barros 1942a) E. (E.) crassispinosus J. Murray, forma fasciata Marcus, 1928 (du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944) Terra typica: Republic of South Africa (Africa)

Brazil:

• 22°44′S, 45°35′W; 1,650 m asl: São Paulo State, Campos do Jordão, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

• 23°29′S, 46°21′W; 750 m asl: São Paulo State, Itaquaquecetuba, mosses. de Barros (1942a)

• 25°26′S, 49°16′W; 900 m asl: Paraná State, Curitiba, mosses or aquatic plants. du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1944)

Record numbers: Brazil: 3; total: 3.

Remarks: As these two Brazilian records are the only reports of this species outside Africa (McInnes 1994a) indicate and taking into consideration South American specimens descriptions differ from the original subspecies description (Marcus 1928), they should be probably assigned to a new species (for more comments see Ramazzotti & Maucci 1983).