Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador Author Revelo-Tobar, Harol 0000-0001-5589-4804 hrevelo@earth.ac.cr text Zootaxa 2022 2022-11-22 5210 1 1 96 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1 journal article 197533 10.11646/zootaxa.5210.1.1 5e6d4f27-4624-41d0-8cb5-8850045fb47c 1175-5326 7345248 A4E9CE9B-C515-42E9-88E2-19D1BF58D3E8 Mesoplophora ( Mesoplophora ) cubana Călugăr & Vasiliu, 1977 Mesoplophora cubana : Illig et al. (2007) ; Scheu et al. (2008) . Mesoplophora cubana cubana : Marian et al. (2020) . 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 .