Oppiella nova (Oudemans, 1902)

Oppiella cf. nova: Ramírez-Castillo et al. (2018); Marian et al. (2020).

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

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. Abandoned pasture soil. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis and Mollinedia sp., Graffenrieda emarginata, Clusia spp., Hediosmum sp.

References: Schatz (1998): 383; Schatz (2006): 247-248; Illig et al. (2007): 228; Illig et al. (2010): 56; Ermilov et al. (2013b): 219; Maraun et al. (2013): 187; Ramírez-Castillo et al. (2018): 40; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020) 7.