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 Tectocepheus velatus velatus (Michael, 1880) Distribution : Cosmopolitan. Records in Ecuador : Loja (andean mountain region of the Loja valley) and Zamora Chinchipe ( San Francisco Biological Reserve and Podocarpus National Park-Bombuscaro) . Habitat : Soil and litter of degraded forest. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis , Mollinedia sp. , Graffenrieda emarginata , Clusia spp. and Hediosmum sp. References : Marian et al. (2018) : 268-270; Marian et al. (2020) : 7.