Mesoplophora (Mesoplophora) cubana Călugăr & Vasiliu, 1977

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, Zootaxa 5210 (1), pp. 1-96 : 11

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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7345274
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scientific name	Mesoplophora (Mesoplophora) cubana Călugăr & Vasiliu, 1977
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Mesoplophora (Mesoplophora) cubana Călugăr & Vasiliu, 1977 View in CoL

Mesoplophora cubana: Illig et al. (2007) View in CoL ; Scheu et al. (2008).

Mesoplophora cubana cubana: Marian et al. (2020) View in CoL .

Distribution: Neotropical: Antillas ( Cuba), Ecuador.

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

Habitat: Bark, litter and the upper soil layer, especially from Graffenrieda emarginata litter. Litter fermentation layer. Soil and litter of pine ( Pinus patula ) and degraded forest.

References: Niedbała & Illig (2007a): 136; Niedbała & Illig (2007b): 772; Illig et al. (2007): 225; Scheu et al. (2008): 4; Illig et al. (2008): 164; Niedbała & Roszkowska (2016): 261; Marian et al. (2020): 7.

Remarks: Marian et al. (2020) possibly mistakenly reported the species as: Mesoplophora cubana cubana .

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Sarcoptiformes
Family	Mesoplophoridae
Genus	Mesoplophora