Protoribates (Protoribates) paracapucinus (Mahunka, 1988)

Protoribates paracapucinus: Ermilov et al. (2013); Maraun et al. (2013); Marian et al. (2018); Marian et al. (2020).

Distribution: Semi-cosmopolitan.

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

Habitat: Upper organic soil layer in mostly undisturbed rain forest. Soil and litter of pine ( Pinus patula), alder ( Alnus acuminata) and degraded forest. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis, Mollinedia sp., Graffenrieda emarginata and Clusia spp.

References: Ermilov et al. (2013): 45; Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.