Tecteremaeus cornutus Hammer 1961

Tecteremaeus cornutus Hammer, 1961 Distribution: Neotropical (Peru, Ecuador), Philippines, East Asian Russia. Records in Ecuador: Pichincha (Between Quito and Nono, 3 to 8 km to Nono and Pasochoa National Park) and Zamora Chinchipe (San Francisco Biological Reserve and Podocarpus National Park-Bombuscaro) and Loja (Podocarpus National Park-Cajanuma). Habitat: Moss from stems of shrubs from about 30 m above creek level. Moss hanging from rock at a small waterfall, about 50 m above the river. Litter and soil from a forest patch. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis and Mollinedia sp. References: P. Balogh (1988): 323; Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270.
Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5210 (1) on page 45, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7345248
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