Trichthonius pulcherrimus Hammer 1958

• Main Authors: Kun, Marcelo E., Martínez, Pablo A., Gonzalez, Alda
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Arachnida; Sarcoptiformes; Cosmochthoniidae; Trichthonius; Trichthonius pulcherrimus; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5661268; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C636BF1DD518B265FF63F96489F416EA

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). Published as part of Kun, Marcelo E., Martínez, Pablo A. & Gonzalez, Alda, 2010, Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Austrocedrus chilensis and Nothofagus forests of Northwestern Patagonia (Argentina), pp. 22-42 in Zootaxa 2548 on page 27, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.196766