Distribution: Neotropical (Peru, Ecuador). Records in Ecuador: Galápagos, Zamora Chinchipe (San Francisco Biological Reserve and Podocarpus National Park-Bombuscaro) and Loja (Podocarpus National Park-Cajanuma and andean mountain region of the Loja valley). Habitat: Arid, transition and moist zone. Litter and soil from Graffenrieda emarginata. Abandoned pasture soil. Soil and litter of pine (Pinus patula), alder (Alnus acuminata) and degraded forest. Litterbags of Puteria sp., Cavendishia zamorensis, Mollinedia sp., Clusia spp. and Hediosmum sp.
Sumber: Checklist of Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) of Ecuador