Macrobiotus hibiscus de Barros, 1942

Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2017, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part IV: Africa, Zootaxa 4284 (1), pp. 1-74 : 43-44

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scientific name	Macrobiotus hibiscus de Barros, 1942
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125. Macrobiotus hibiscus de Barros, 1942 View in CoL sensu lato [T]

Macrobiotus hibiscus Barros, 1942 View in CoL ( Grigarick et al. 1973) Terra typica : Brazil (South America)

Tanzania:

• 06°22′S, 34°53′E: Undefined locality. Grigarick et al. (1973)

Record numbers. Tanzania: 1; total: 1.

Remarks. This reference is based solely on eggs, with no additional information. Macrobiotus hibiscus is possibly a junior synonym of Macrobiotus hufelandi as the morphology of this species falls within the Macrobiotus hufelandi group diagnosis (e.g. Kathman 1990). This group requires careful taxonomic analysis, including egg morphology, for correct identification (see Bertolani & Rebecchi 1993 for a diagnostic key and other papers for more recent species descriptions: e.g. Pilato et al. 2003b, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2004c, Fontoura et al. 2008b, Bartels et al. 2009, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009b, Guidetti et al. 2013). A few additional species from the hufelandi group have been described from Africa and neighbouring islands, e.g. M. iharosi or M. madegassus Maucci, 1993 . Further work on the Brazilian type material or type locale will clarify the status and biogeography of this species. The limited material from this report suggests the presence of M. hibiscus in Africa is very doubtful.

References

Grigarick, A. A., Schuster, R. O. & Toftner, E. C. (1973) Descriptive morphology of eggs of some species in the MacRobiotus hufelandi group (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae). The Pan-Pacific Entomology, 49, 258 - 263.

De Barros, R. (1942) Tardigrados de Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil. II. Genero MacRobiotus. Revista BRasileiRa de Biologia, 2, 373 - 386.

Bartels, P., Pilato, G., Lisi, O. & Nelson, D. R. (2009) MacRobiotus (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae) from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee / North Carolina, USA (North America): two new species and six new records. Zootaxa, 2022, 45 - 57.

Bertolani, R. & Rebecchi, L. (1993) A revision of the MacRobiotus hufelandi group (Tardigrada, Macrobiotidae), with some observations on the taxonomic characters of eutardigrades. Zoologica ScRipta, 22, 127 - 152. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1463 - 6409.1993. tb 00347. x

Fontoura, P., Pilato, G. & Lisi, O. (2008 b) New records of eutardigrades (Tardigrada) from Faial and Pico Islands, the Azores, with the description of two new species. Zootaxa, 1778, 37 - 47.

Guidetti, R., Peluffo, J. R., Rocha, A. M., Cesari, M & Moly de Peluffo, M. C. (2013) The morphological and molecular analyses of a new South American urban tardigrade offer new insights on the biological meaning of the MacRobiotus hufelandi group of species (Tardigrada: Macrobiotidae). JouRnal of NatuRal HistoRy, 47 (37 - 38), 2409 - 2426. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222933.2013.800610

Kaczmarek, L. & Michalczyk, L. (2004 c) New records of Tardigrada from Cyprus with a description of the new species MacRobiotus maRlenae (hufelandi group) (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae). Genus, 15 (1), 141 - 152.

Kaczmarek, L. & Michalczyk, L. (2009 b) Two new species of Macrobiotidae, MacRobiotus szeptyckii (haRmswoRthi group) and MacRobiotus kazmieRskii (hufelandi group) from Argentina. Acta Zoologica CRacoviensia, 52 B, 87 - 99. https: // doi. org / 10.3409 / azc. 52 b _ 1 - 2.87 - 99

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Maucci, W. (1993) Prime notizie su Tardigradi Terrestri del Madagascar con descrizione di tre specie nuove. Bollettino del Museo Civico StoRia NatuRale di VeRona, 17, 381 - 392.

Pilato, G., Kaczmarek, L., Michalczyk, L. & Lisi, O. (2003 b) MacRobiotus polonicus, a new species of Tardigrada from Poland (Eutardigrada, Macrobiotidae, ' hufelandi group'). Zootaxa, 258, 1 - 8. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 258.1.1