Machuella ventrisetosa Hammer, 1961

Distribution: Pantropical, Palearctic.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos, Zamora Chinchipe ( San Francisco Biological Reserve) and Loja (andean mountain region of the Loja valley).

Habitat: Litoral and moist zone. Abandoned pasture soil. Soil and litter of pine ( Pinus patula). Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis and Mollinedia sp.

References: Schatz (1998): 383; Schatz (2006): 247; Ramírez-Castillo et al. (2018): 39-40; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.