111. Pilatobius brevipes (Marcus, 1936) sensu lato [T] H. (C.) breuipes Marcus, 1936 (Claps & Rossi 1981) Hypsibius brevipes Marcus, 1936 (Iharos, 1982) Diphascon (Diphascon) brevipes (Marcus, 1930) (Gritano-Zavala 1995) D. (D.) brevipes (Gritano-Zavala 1996) Terra typica: Hungary (Europe) Argentina: • 41°08′S, 71°20′W; 950 m asl: Rio Negro Province, Cerro Runge, very wet, mosses from forest. Claps & Rossi (1981) • 54°39′S, 68°30′W; 800 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, National Park Ushuaia [Tierra del Fuego National Park], soil. Iharos (1982) Bolivia: • 16°11'S, 68°35'W; 3,680–4,000 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Huarina, moorland floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996) • 16°13'S, 68°13'W; 4,550–4,700 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Tuni, subnival floor, cushion moss. Garitano-Zavala (1995, 1996) • 16°18'S, 68°17'W; 4,300–4,400 m asl: La Paz Department, Cordillera de la Real de los Andes, Wila Kunka, high Andean floor, cushion moss. Gritano-Zavala (1995, 1996) Record numbers: Argentina: 2, Bolivia: 3; total: 5. Remarks: A largely Palaearctic species also reported from single localities in North and South America (McInnes 1994a), which could suggest a species complex.

Published as part of Kaczmarek, Łukasz, Michalczyk, Łukasz & Mcinnes, Sandra J., 2015, Annotated zoogeography of non-marine Tardigrada. Part II: South America, pp. 1-107 in Zootaxa 3923 (1) on pages 47-48, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3923.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/241936