Plonaphacarus kugohi Aoki, 1959

Distribution: Pantropical, southern Palearctic.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: San Cristóbal, Fernandina), Esmeraldas (at road E10, 40 km SE from San Lorenzo city) and Napo (45 km N from Puyo, CIPCA ( Centro de Investigación, Posgrado y Conservación de la Amazonía)) .

Habitat: Isla San Cristóbal: small spring in valley near lake El Junco, Miconia zone; moist, decayed leaf litter under Miconia robinsoniana . Isla Fernandina: littoral zone, under Laguncidaria racemosa and Rhizophora mangle; moist, well-decayed mangrove leaf litter. Litoral and transition zone. Natural ecosystem, leaf litter mixed with moss from the deciduous forest. Ruderal community, rotten wood.

References: Niedbała & Schatz (1996): 263; Schatz (1998): 380; Niedbała & Roszkowska (2016): 11.