Indotritia (Indotritia) bellingeri Niedbała & Schatz, 1996

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 18-19

Indotritia (Indotritia) bellingeri Niedbała & Schatz, 1996

Indotritia bellingeri: Niedbała & Schatz (1996) ; Niedbała (2004); Niedbała & Ermilov (2014).

Distribution: Neartic ( USA), Neotropical.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: Santa Cruz, Floreana , Isabela ), El Oro ( Rio Palenque R.S.), Pichincha (4 km E Santo Domingo) , Cotopaxi (Reserve of Bosque Integral Otonga, near San Francisco de las Pampas ), Imbabura (at road E10, 10 km SE from Lita city) and Napo (45 km N from Puyo, CIPCA ( Centro de Investigación , Posgrado y Conservación de la Amazonía )) .

Habitat: Isla Santa Cruz: littoral zone in Bahía Academy, Puerto Ayora, under Laguncularia racemosa and Rhizophora mangle ; moist, partlydecayed mangrove leaf litter; cultivated area 2 km N of Bella Vista, leaf and fruit litter under Persea americana ; transition forest 1 km E of Bella Vista, 210 m; cave ravine litter. Isla Floreana: moist highland at base of Cerro Pajas, 360 m; in pitfall trap in moist litter under Psidium guajava , Zanthoxylum fagara , and Croton scouleri . Isla Isabela: Volcán Sierra Negra near Santo Tomás, cultivated area with mixed forest, 350 m; fern litter and humus. Litoral, arid, transition and moist zone. Rain forest litter. Sifted litter. Natural ecosystem, leaf litter from deciduous forest. Agricultural ecosystem: banana cultivation.

References: Niedbała & Schatz (1996): 248-249; Schatz (1998): 380; Niedbała (2004): 37; Niedbała & Ermilov (2014): 255, 257; Niedbała & Roszkowska (2016): 11.