Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 26

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

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7345787

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scientific name

Crotonia reticulata Luxton, 1982
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Distribution: New Zealand, Ecuador.

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

Habitat: Leaf litter and soil. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis , Mollinedia sp. , Clusia spp. Graffenieda emarginata and Hediosmum sp.

References: Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

SubOrder

Oribatida

SuperFamily

Crotonioidea

Family

Crotoniidae

Genus

Crotonia