Nanhermannia elegantissima Hammer, 1958

Distribution: Neotropical and sub-Antarctic: I. Malvinas.

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

Habitat: Leaf litter and forest soil. Abandoned pasture soil. Soil and litter of pine ( Pinus patula) and alder ( Alnus acuminata). Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis, Mollinedia sp., Graffenrieda emarginata and Hediosmum sp.

References: Illig et al. (2007): 226; Pachl et al. (2017): 312; Ramírez-Castillo et al. (2018): 39-40; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.