Phthiracarus pygmaeus Balogh, 1958

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7345759

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D5452D6E-FF83-FFEF-76B2-FB8A54E75A26

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Plazi

scientific name

Phthiracarus pygmaeus Balogh, 1958
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Phthiracarus pygmaeus Balogh, 1958 View in CoL

Distribution: Pantropical.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Isla Seymour Norte), Cotopaxi ( Reserve of Bosque Integral Otonga , near San Francisco de las Pampas), Pastaza (13 km N from Shell, private reserve Fundación de la Amazonia, near the border with Llanganates Park) and Zamora Chinchipe ( San Francisco Biological Reserve ) .

Habitat: Arid zone in the interior of the island, under Bursera malacophylla and Cryptocarpus pyriformis ; dry sandy litter and humus. Sifted litter. Primary forest, leaf litter. Leaf litter and forest soil.

References: Niedbała & Schatz (1996): 262; Schatz (1998): 380; Illig et al. (2007): 226; Niedbała & Ermilov (2014): 255; Niedbała & Roszkowska (2016): 11.

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