Torpacarus remotus Schatz, 1994

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 11

publication ID

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

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A4E9CE9B-C515-42E9-88E2-19D1BF58D3E8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7345246

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D5452D6E-FF91-FFFD-76B2-FBE752295AB2

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Torpacarus remotus Schatz, 1994
status

 

Torpacarus remotus Schatz, 1994 View in CoL

Distribution: Ecuador.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: Santa Cruz, Floreana, Bartolomé, Sombrero Chino, Genovesa, Fernandina).

Habitat: Isla Santa Cruz: Puerto Ayora, littoral zone, under Rhizophora mangle , moist, decayed mangrove-leaf litter; littoral zone near Tortuga Bay, mangrove swamp around Rhizophora mangle and Avicennia germinans , in moist, mangrove leaf litter. Isla Floreana: below Cerro Pajas, under Croton scouleri var. brevifolius and Commelina diffusa , in well decayed moist, leaf litter and humus. Isla Bartolomé: littoral zone, under Laguncuiaria racemosa near Pinnacle Rock, in moist, mangrove leaf litter and humus. Isla Sombrero Chino: littoral zone, under Heliotropium angiospermium and Sesuvium edmonstonei , in moist, decayed leaf litter. Isla Genovesa: littoral zone in Darwin Bay, under Cryptocarpus pyriformis , in partially-decayed leaf litter and humus, moist. Isla Fernandina: Punta Espinosa, littoral zone, in moist mangrove leaf litter, under Rhizophora mangle . Litoral and moist zone.

References: Schatz (1994): 176-178; Schatz (1994a): 285; Schatz (1998): 381.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

SubOrder

Oribatida

SuperFamily

Hypochthonioidea

Family

Lohmanniidae

Genus

Torpacarus

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