Trichthonius pulcherrimus ( Hammer, 1958 )

Kun, Marcelo E., Martínez, Pablo A. & Gonzalez, Alda, 2010, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Austrocedrus chilensis and Nothofagus forests of Northwestern Patagonia (Argentina), Zootaxa 2548, pp. 22-42 : 27

Trichthonius pulcherrimus ( Hammer, 1958)

Specimens examined: Cerro Otto - leaf litter under A. chilensis , XI-2006 (18), I-2009 (5), III-2009 (2), Cerro P. Laguna - leaf litter under N. antarctica , XI-2006 (1).

Remarks: Originally described from Argentina. Previously reported from that country [as Cosmochthonius pulcherrimus Hammer , Trichthonius pulcherrimus (Hammer) ] in the province of Mendoza ( Hammer 1958), in the province of Río Negro ( Balogh & Csiszár 1963), Chile ( Hammer 1962a), Bolivia ( Hammer 1958), Peru ( Hammer 1961) and Australia ( Lee 1982).