Microppia minus (Paoli, 1908)

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 54

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scientific name	Microppia minus (Paoli, 1908)
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Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

Records in Ecuador: Loja (andean mountain region of the Loja valley) and Zamora Chinchipe ( San Francisco Biological Reserve ) .

Habitat: Soil and litter of pine ( Pinus patula ). Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis and Mollinedia sp.

References: Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.

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

Marian, F., Ramirez-Castillo, P., Iniguez-Armijos, C., Gunter, S. M., Maraun, M. & Scheu, S. (2020) Conversion of Andean montane forests into plantations: Effects on soil characteristics, microorganisms, and microarthropods. Biotropica, 52 (6), 1142 - 1154. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / btp. 12813