Acrotritia spp.

Revelo-Tobar, Harol, Ojeda, Margarita, García-Ayala, Leonardo J. & Palacios-Vargas, José G., 2024, Checklist Of Oribatid Mites (Acari: Oribatida) From Mexico, Zootaxa 5465 (1), pp. 1-178 : 30

Acrotritia spp.

Rhysotritia 3 spp.: Vázquez et al. (2011).

Rhysotritia sp. : Palacios-Vargas (1981); Palacios-Vargas (1982); Palacios-Vargas (1983); Riverón (1985); Fuentes-Silva & Cutz-Pool (2004); Hoffmann et al. (2004); Palacios-Vargas et al. (2006); Palacios-Vargas & Gamboa-Vargas (1997); Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2005); Marín-Castro (2006); Vázquez et al. (2011); Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Tome et al. (2015); Salazar-Santana (2016); Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019), García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.

Records in Mexico: Morelos, Guerrero, Nuevo Leon Coahuila, San Luis Potosi, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Queretaro, Campeche, Hidalgo and Chiapas.

Biogeographic province: Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Tamaulipas. Balsas Basin. Sierra Madre Oriental. Sierra Madre del Sur. Yucatan Peninsula. Veracruzan. Chihuahuan Desert.

Habitat: Tillandsia sp. Soil, litter and detritus of a cave. Guano in a cave. Littoral zone. Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Shrubland, Mezquital ( Prosopis glandulosa ); wet grassland, Tular ( Sporobolus / Distichlis ); desert shrub, Larrea ( Larrea tridentata / Fouquieria ); desert shrub, Sotol ( Dasylirion wheeleri ) and Peladero ( Sporobolus ) surrounded by areas of gypsum desert dunes with no vegetation cover. Soil in acahual and coffee plantations. Litter in xerophytic shrubland. Xerophytic vegetation. Moss. Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Palacios-Vargas (1981): 64–65; Palacios-Vargas (1982): 537–543; Palacios-Vargas (1983): 59; Riverón (1985): 123; Palacios-Vargas (1991): 10; Palacios-Vargas & Gamboa-Vargas (1997): 89; Fuentes-Silva & Cutz-Pool (2004): 26; Hoffmann et al. (2004): 259–260; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2005): 27; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2006): 16; Marín-Castro (2006): 24–64; Vázquez et al. (2011): 53; Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Tome et al. (2015): 60; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 36; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.