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Nanhermannia elegantissima Hammer 1958

Description

Nanhermannia elegantissima Hammer, 1958

Distribution: Neotropical and sub-Antarctic: I. Malvinas.

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

Habitat: Leaf litter and forest soil. Abandoned pasture soil. Soil and litter of pine (Pinus patula) and alder (Alnus acuminata). Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis, Mollinedia sp., Graffenrieda emarginata and Hediosmum sp.

References: Illig et al. (2007): 226; Pachl et al. (2017): 312; Ramírez-Castillo et al. (2018): 39-40; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270; Marian et al. (2020): 7.

Notes

Published as part of Revelo-Tobar, Harol, 2022, Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador, pp. 1-96 in Zootaxa 5210 (1) on page 28, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7345248

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Biodiversity

Family
Nanhermanniidae
Genus
Nanhermannia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Hammer
Species
elegantissima
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Nanhermannia elegantissima Hammer, 1958 sec. Revelo-Tobar, 2022

References

  • Illig, J., Sandmann, S., Schatz, H., Scheu, S. & Maraun, N. (2007) Oribatida (Mites) Checklist Reserva Biologica San Francisco (Prov. Zamora Chinchipe, S. Ecuador). Ecotropical Monographs, 4, 221 - 230.
  • Pachl, P., Lindl, A. C., Krause, A., Scheu, S., Schaefer, I. & Maraun, M. (2017) The tropics as an ancient cradle of oribatid mite diversity. Acarologia, 57 (2), 309 - 322. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / acarologia / 20164148
  • Ramirez-Castillo, P., Marian, L., Marian, F., Gunter, S., Espinosa, C. I., Maraun, M. & Scheu, S. (2018) Response of oribatid mites to reforestation of degraded tropical montane pastureland. European Journal of Soil Biology, 84, 35 - 41. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ejsobi. 2017.09.009
  • Marian, F., Sandmann, D., Krashevska, V., Maraun, M. & Scheu, S. (2018) Altitude and decomposition stage rather than litter origin structure soil microarthropod communities in tropical montane rainforests. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 125, 263 - 274. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. soilbio. 2018.07.017
  • Marian, F., Ramirez-Castillo, P., Iniguez-Armijos, C., Gunter, S. M., Maraun, M. & Scheu, S. (2020) Conversion of Andean montane forests into plantations: Effects on soil characteristics, microorganisms, and microarthropods. Biotropica, 52 (6), 1142 - 1154. https: // doi. org / 10.1111 / btp. 12813