Echiniscus lineatus Pilato, Fontoura, Lisi and Beasley 2008

Echiniscus lineatus Pilato, Fontoura, Lisi and Beasley, 2008 Material examined. One specimen; UGANDA; Kibale NP, Kabarole District; 00°34'1.253"N, 30°22'34.642"E; ca. 1535 m asl; 4 Jul. 2022; coll. Barbara Wiśniewska; moss on tree trunk; barcodes (GenBank: PZ 120891, GenBank: PZ 120889, GenBank: PZ 120886, GenBank: PZ 124266 -7); sample code (UG 77 L). — One specimen was examined for DNA isolation. The exoskeleton after DNA extraction was mounted in Hoyer’s medium. Specimen depository. The slide UG 77 / 19 with one individual is deposited in the Department of Animal Taxonomy and Ecology, Institute of Environmental Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, 61-614 Poznań, Poland. Morphological identification. The morphological characteristics fully correspond to the original species description. DNA sequences. The sequences obtained from one specimen for all five molecular markers analysed in this study were of good quality. 28 S rRNA sequence (GenBank: PZ 120891) 710 bp long; 18 S rRNA sequence (GenBank: PZ 120889) 714 bp long; COI sequence (GenBank: PZ 120886) 619 bp long; ITS- 1 sequence (GenBank: PZ 124266) 613 bp long; ITS- 2 sequence (GenBank: PZ 124267) 387 bp long. Haplotype distribution. The analysis included the following numbers of sequences: 30 sequences for COI, nine sequences for ITS- 1, and ten sequences for ITS- 2. The total number of countries from which the material originated was nine for COI (Brazil, the United States, Indonesia, Uganda, Seychelles, Taiwan, Vietnam, Madagascar and Tanzania; Fig. 12 A), five for ITS- 1 (Indonesia, Uganda, Seychelles, Taiwan and Brazil; Fig. 12 B), and five for ITS- 2 (Uganda, Seychelles, Indonesia, Brazil and USA; Fig. 12 C). Results of the analysis revealed no discernible geographic patterns, as haplotype clustering was random and individuals from similar geographic regions were often distantly related in the presented networks. Published as part of Warguła, Jędrzej, Stec, Daniel, Dmuchowska, Wiktoria, Krakowiak, Michalina, Polishchuk, Anastasiia, Gawlak, Magdalena & Kaczmarek, Łukasz, 2026, Integrative description of two new tardigrade species from the rainforests of Kibale National Park, Uganda, pp. 423-446 in Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 84 on pages 423-446, DOI: 10.3897/asp.84.e185344