Tectocepheus minor Berlese, 1903

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 66-67

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scientific name	Tectocepheus minor Berlese, 1903
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Tectocepheus minor Berlese, 1903 View in CoL

Distribution: Semi-cosmopolitan.

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

Habitat: Arid and moist zone. Abandoned pasture soil. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis , Mollinedia sp. , Graffenrieda emarginata and Clusia spp.

References: Schatz (1998): 383; Schatz (2006): 241; Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Ramírez-Castillo et al. (2018): 39- 40; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270.