182. Macrobiotus psephus du Bois-Reymond Marcus, 1944 [T]

M. psephus sp. n. (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944)

M. psephus du Bois Reymond (Claps & Rossi 1997)

Terra typica: Brazil (South America)

Brazil:

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

Uruguay:

• 31°03′S, 57°38′W; 50 m asl: Salto Department, Arroyo Palomas, mosses or lichens on rocks, trees or posts or aquatic macrophytes. Claps & Rossi (1997)

Venezuela:

• 10°20′N, 67°21′W; 2,000 m asl: Undefined locality, Region Central, Aragua, Entrada Costa Maya, mosses. Séméria (1993)

Record numbers: Brazil: 1, Uruguay: 1, Venezuela: 1; total: 3.

Remarks: The species originally described from South America (du Bois-Reymond Marcus 1944) and later found in Costa Rica (Kaczmarek et al. 2014a). Specimens from Costa Rica indicate that this species requires a redescription and should probably be transferred to the genus Paramacrobiotus .