Hypsibius allisoni Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978

89. Hypsibius allisoni Horning, Schuster & Grigarick, 1978 [T]

Hypsibius allisoni Horning et al., 1978 ( Maucci 1988, Binda & Pilato 1999b)

Terra typica: South Island, New Zealand (Pacific Ocean)

Argentina:

• 50°06′S, 73°18′W; 200 m asl: Santa Cruz Province, Los Glaciares National Park, shores of Argentino Lake, near the Onelli glacier, Nothofagus forests, in the shade, mosses and lichens on trees and rocks. Maucci (1988)

• 54°17′S, 66°42′W; 50 m asl: Tierra del Fuego Province, Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, outskirts of Cabo San Pablo, peat-moss. Binda & Pilato (1999b)

Chile:

• 51°34′S, 72°36′W; 200 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Ultima Esperanza, near Cueva del Milodón, mosses on rocks, in sunlight. Maucci (1988)

• 51°44′S, 72°30′W; 0 m asl: Region XII Magallanes (Región de Magallanes y de la Antártica Chilena), Puerto Natales, mosses on trees and rocks. Maucci (1988)

Ecuador:

• 00°11′S, 78°36′W; 4,500 m asl: Pichincha Province, Pichincha Volcano, soil sample. Pilato et al. (2003a)

Record numbers: Argentina: 2, Chile: 2, Ecuador: 1; total: 5.

Remarks: Belonging to the convergens -species complex ( Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009a), which has an apparent global distribution ( McInnes 1994a), this species complex requires careful examination as members of this group can only be determined via subtle taxonomic details of claws morphology and other morphometric characters ( e.g. Miller et al. 2005, Kaczmarek & Michalczyk 2009a). Hypsibius allisoni has disjunct Gondwanan distribution, known from New Zealand, Antarctica and South America ( McInnes 1994a).