Mesobiotus dilimanensis Itang & Stec & Mapalo & Mirano-Bascos & Michalczyk 2020, new species

Mesobiotus dilimanensis, new species (Tables 3, 4, Figs. 1–5) Material examined: 65 animals (including eight simplex), 47 eggs, and 7 empty chorions mounted on microscope slides in Hoyer's medium, 5 eggs fixed on SEM stubs, and 8 specimens processed for DNA sequencing. Type locality: 14°39′40″N, 121°04′07″E; 76 m asl: Philippines, Quezon City, Diliman, University of the Philippines, A. Roces St.; moss on a rock; September 2015; coll. Lowelyn Itang. Etymology: The species is named after Diliman, the district in Quezon City, Philippines, where it was discovered. Type depositories: Holotype: slide PH.006.10 with six paratypes; 58 paratypes (slides: PH.006. *, where the asterisk can be substituted by any of the following numbers: 02–03, 11–16), 47 eggs (slides: PH.006. *: 5–9, 17); seven empty chorions (slides: PH.006. *: 01, 04) are deposited at the Institute of Zoology and Biomedical Research, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 9, 30-387, Kraków, Poland.Published as part of Itang, Lowelyn A. M., Stec, Daniel, Mapalo, Marc A., Mirano-Bascos, Denise & Michalczyk, Łukasz, 2020, An integrative description of Mesobiotus dilimanensis, a new tardigrade species from the Philippines (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: furciger group), pp. 19-31 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 21, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0003, http://zenodo.org/record/457663

An integrative description of Mesobiotus dilimanensis, a new tardigrade species from the Philippines (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: furciger group)

Fig. 3. Mesobiotus dilimanensis, new species, PCM images of the buccal apparatus. A, an entire buccal apparatus (paratype); B, C, the oral cavity armature of the paratype, dorsal and ventral teeth respectively; D, the oral cavity armature of another paratype, ventral teeth; E, F, placoid morphology of the paratype, dorsal and ventral placoids respectively. Arrowheads indicate subterminal constrictions in the third macroplacoid. Scale bars in μm.Published as part of Itang, Lowelyn A. M., Stec, Daniel, Mapalo, Marc A., Mirano-Bascos, Denise & Michalczyk, Łukasz, 2020, An integrative description of Mesobiotus dilimanensis, a new tardigrade species from the Philippines (Eutardigrada: Macrobiotidae: furciger group), pp. 19-31 in Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68 on page 25, DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2020-0003, http://zenodo.org/record/457663