Microtegeus similis Balogh & Mahunka, 1980

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 35

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scientific name	Microtegeus similis Balogh & Mahunka, 1980
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Distribution: Neotropical.

Records in Ecuador: Zamora Chinchipe ( San Francisco Biological Reserve and Podocarpus National Park-Bombuscaro) and Loja (Podocarpus National Park-Cajanuma).

Habitat: Leaf litter and forest soil. Litterbags of Clusia spp. and Hediosmum sp.

References: Illig et al. (2007): 227; Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Pachl et al. (2017): 312; Marian et al. (2018): 268- 270.

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.

Maraun, M., Fronczek, S., Marian, F., Sandmann, D. & Scheu, S. (2013 b) More sex at higher altitudes: Changes in the frequency of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites in tropical montane rain forests. Pedobiologia, 56, 185 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pedobi. 2013.07.001

Marian, F., Sandmann, D., Krashevska, V., Maraun, M. & Scheu, S. (2018) Altitude and decomposition stage rather than litter origin structure soil microarthropod communities in tropical montane rainforests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 125, 263 - 274. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. soilbio. 2018.07.017

Pachl, P., Lindl, A. C., Krause, A., Scheu, S., Schaefer, I. & Maraun, M. (2017) The tropics as an ancient cradle of oribatid mite diversity. Acarologia, 57 (2), 309 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / acarologia / 20164148