“…An intensive study of the Ecuadorian Pterophoridae began in the end of the 20 th century and continues nowadays. The Pterophoridae fauna of Ecuador includes about 130 species (Gielis 1996(Gielis , 1997(Gielis , 2002(Gielis , 2003(Gielis , 2006(Gielis , 2011(Gielis , 2012(Gielis , 2013(Gielis , 2014(Gielis , 2016Landry & Gielis 1992;Gielis & Matthews 1994;Matthews & Miller 2010;Kovtunovich et al 2016). The richness and diversity of natural zones in Ecuador together with the equatorial climate, favorable for the plant and animal world, allows suggesting that this region will still be a significant source of faunal findings and of Pterophoridae species new to science.…”