Oribotritia didyma Niedbała & Schatz, 1996

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 19-20

Oribotritia didyma Niedbała & Schatz, 1996

Distribution: Neotropical.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: Santa Cruz, Floreana, Santa Fé, Isabela).

Habitat: Isla Santa Cruz: transition zone below Bella Vista: moist, well-decayed leaf litter under Psidium galapageium and Zanthoxylum fagara ; cultivated area above Bella Vista, moist, well-decayed leaf litter under Persea americana ; cultivated area near Santa Rosa, moist, well-decayed leaf litter with humus under Cedrela odorata and Pteridium aquilinum ; Scalesia forest near Los Gemelos moist, partly-decayed leaf litter with pieces of wood and humus under Scalesia pedunculata , Xanthoxylum fagara , and Psychotria rufipes . Isla Floreana: moist highland N of Cerro Pajas, near Finca: moist leaf litter with pieces of wood and humus under Psidium guajava , Zanthoxylum fagara , and Croton scouleri var. brevifolius ; moist leaf litter, partially decayed, under Kalanchoe pinnata ; moist, well-decayed leaf litter and humus in Commelina diffusa under Croton , Acacia , and Scalesia pedunculata ; dry to moist, partly-decayed leaf litter and humus under Lantana camara . Isla Santa Fe: arid zone in NE part near cliff, 15 in: dry grass and leaf litter under Waltheria ovata .

Isla Isabela: volcán Sierra Negra: W of Puerto Villamil, littoral zone, in forest of Conocarpus erecta ; dry to moist, well-decayed mangrove leaf litter and humus; above Santo Tomás, cultivated area, moist, decayed leaf litter under Persea americana and Coffea arabica ; moist, decayed leaf litter and roots under Persea americana and Pteridium aquilinum ; in Guayaba forest in “Trocha”, moist leaf litter and moss under Psidium guajava and Pteridium aquilinum ; moist, decayed leaf litter. Litoral, arid, transition and moist zone.

References: Niedbała & Schatz (1996): 243-245; Schatz (1998): 380.