Plonaphacarus kugohi Aoki, 1959

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A4E9CE9B-C515-42E9-88E2-19D1BF58D3E8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7345761

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D5452D6E-FF83-FFEF-76B2-F91253365D92

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Plonaphacarus kugohi Aoki, 1959
status

 

Plonaphacarus kugohi Aoki, 1959

Distribution: Pantropical, southern Palearctic.

Records in Ecuador: Galápagos (Islas: San Cristóbal, Fernandina ), Esmeraldas (at road E10, 40 km SE from San Lorenzo city) and Napo (45 km N from Puyo, CIPCA ( Centro de Investigación , Posgrado y Conservación de la Amazonía )) .

Habitat: Isla San Cristóbal: small spring in valley near lake El Junco, Miconia zone ; moist, decayed leaf litter under Miconia robinsoniana . Isla Fernandina: littoral zone, under Laguncidaria racemosa and Rhizophora mangle ; moist, well-decayed mangrove leaf litter. Litoral and transition zone. Natural ecosystem, leaf litter mixed with moss from the deciduous forest. Ruderal community, rotten wood.

References: Niedbała & Schatz (1996): 263; Schatz (1998): 380; Niedbała & Roszkowska (2016): 11.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Sarcoptiformes

SubOrder

Oribatida

SuperFamily

Phthiracaroidea

Family

Phthiracaridae

Genus

Plonaphacarus

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