Geographic Location and Habitats: BC: North of Kamloops, in Douglas-fir litter (Marshall 1979); Upper Klanawa Mainline site, near Franklin River (2 spp.) (Berch et al. 2001); Isaiah Creek study site (5 spp.) (Lindo & Stevenson 2007); Vancouver Is., Walbran Valley (Lindo & Winchester 2006) (6 spp.) (Lindo & Winchester 2007; Lindo 2010); Interior, forest litter (9 spp.) (Battigelli et al. 2004); AB: Kananaskis Valley, Lodgepole pine litter (Powell & Skaley 1975); Kananaskis Valley, Lodgepole pine forest (McLean & Parkinson 1998); EMEND Site, White spruce and Trembling aspen litter (2 spp.) (Lindo & Visser 2004); Trembling aspen, White spruce mesocosm (Cameron et al. 2013); ABMI Sites (4 spp.) (Walter & Latonas 2012; Walter et al. 2014); ON: Petawawa National Forestry Institute, Chalk River, mixed conifer-hardwood forest (3 spp.) (Bird & Chatarpaul 1986); Sudbury, mixed deciduous coniferous forest, (3 spp.) (St. John et al. 2002); near Chapleau (2 spp.) (Rousseau et al. 2018); near White River (Barreto & Lindo 2018); QC: Abitibi, boreal mixedwood forest (4 spp.) (Déchêne & Buddle 2009, 2010); NB: peatlands (Behan-Pelletier & Bissett 1994); Maritime Lowlands (Behan-Pelletier 2010); NS: Cape Breton Highlands NP (Behan- Pelletier 2010; Behan-Pelletier et al. 1987); NL: between Corner Brook and Little Grand Lake, Balsam fir forests (Dwyer et al. 1997, 1998).
Superfamily Tectocepheoidea
Family Tectocepheidae
Genus Tectocepheus Berlese, 1896