Tectocepheus velatus velatus (Michael, 1880)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

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

Habitat: Soil and litter of degraded forest. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis, Mollinedia sp., Graffenrieda emarginata, Clusia spp. and Hediosmum sp.

References: Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.