Published November 22, 2022 | Version v1
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Microppia minus

Description

Microppia minus (Paoli, 1908)

Distribution: Cosmopolitan.

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

Habitat: Soil and litter of pine (Pinus patula). Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis and Mollinedia sp.

References: 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 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/7345248

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oppiidae
Genus
Microppia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Sarcoptiformes
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Paoli
Species
minus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Microppia minus (Paoli, 1908) sec. Revelo-Tobar, 2022

References

  • 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