Tectocepheus minor Berlese, 1903

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.