Phthiracarus anonymus Grandjean, 1933

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 24-25

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Distribution: Semi-cosmopolitan.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: Santa Cruz, San Cristóbal) and Zamora Chinchipe ( San Francisco Biological Reserve ) .

Habitat: Isla Santa Cruz: Scalesia forest near Cerro Crocker; moist leaf litter; fern-sedge zone near Puntudo; moist fern litter. Isla San Cristóbal: Miconia zone around lake El Junco; moist, decayed leaf litter under Miconia robinsoniana and Pteridium aquilinum . Moist zone. Bark, organic litter and the upper soil layer, especially from Graffenrieda emarginata litter.

References: Niedbała & Schatz (1996): 262; Schatz (1998): 380; Niedbała & Illig (2007): 140; Illig et al. (2007): 226; Niedbała & Roszkowska (2016): 11.

References

Illig, J., Sandmann, S., Schatz, H., Scheu, S. & Maraun, N. (2007) Oribatida (Mites) Checklist Reserva Biologica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora Chinchipe, S. Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs, 4, 221 - 230.

Niedbala, W. & Schatz, H. (1996) Euptyctimous mites from the Galapagos Islands, Cocos Island, and Central America (Acari: Oribatida). Genus, 7 (2), 239 - 317.

Niedbala, W. & Roszkowska, M. (2016) Ptyctimous mites (Acari, Oribatida) of Ecuador (South America). International Journal of Acarology, 43 (3), 251 - 262. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 01647954.2016.1247910

Schatz, H. (1998) Oribatid mites of the Galapagos Islands - Faunistics, ecology and speciation. Experimental and Applied Acarology, 22, 373 - 409. https: // doi. org / 10.1023 / A: 1006097928124