Scheloribates (Scheloribates) elegans Hammer, 1958

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 80

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7346512
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scientific name	Scheloribates (Scheloribates) elegans Hammer, 1958
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Scheloribates (Scheloribates) elegans Hammer, 1958 View in CoL

Scheloribates elegans: Schatz (1998) View in CoL ; Schatz (2006); Illig et al. (2007); Illig et al. (2008); Ermilov et al. (2013c); Maraun et al. (2013).

Scheloribates cf. elegans: Marian et al. (2018) View in CoL ; Marian et al. (2020).

Distribution: Tropical: Neotropical, Oriental, Hawaii.

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

Habitat: Litoral, arid, transition and moist zone. Upper organic soil layer in mostly undisturbed rain forest. Soil and litter of alder ( Alnus acuminata ). Litterbags Graffenrieda emarginata , Clusia spp. , Cavendishia zamorensis , Hediosmum sp.

References: Schatz (1998): 385; Schatz (2006): 265; Illig et al. (2007): 230; Illig et al. (2008): 164; Ermilov et al. (2013c): 432-434; Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.