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Ampullobates ecuadoriensis Ermilov, Sandmann, Marian & Maraun 2013

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Ampullobates ecuadoriensis Ermilov, Sandmann, Marian & Maraun, 2013

Distribution: Ecuador.

Records in Ecuador: Zamora Chinchipe (San Francisco Biological Reserve and Podocarpus National Park-Bombuscaro).

Habitat: Upper organic soil layer in mostly undisturbed rain forest. Litterbags of Clusia spp., Graffenieda emarginata and Hediosmum sp.

References: Ermilov et al. (2013d): 112-115; Pachl et al. (2017): 313; Marian et al. (2018): 268-270.

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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 31, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7345248

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  • Maraun, M., Fronczek, S., Marian, F., Sandmann, D. & Scheu, S. (2013 b) More sex at higher altitudes: Changes in the frequency of parthenogenesis in oribatid mites in tropical montane rain forests. Pedobiologia, 56, 185 - 190. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. pedobi. 2013.07.001
  • Ermilov, S., Sandmann, D., Marian, F. & Maraun, M. (2013 d) Three new species of oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from Ecuador. Acarologia, 53 (1), 111 - 123. https: // doi. org / 10.1051 / acarologia / 20132075
  • 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
  • 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