Cosmochthonius sp.

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 : 21

Cosmochthonius sp.

Records in Mexico: Puebla, Jalisco, Queretaro, Durango, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Coahuila, Veracruz, Hidalgo and Campeche.

Biogeographic province: Sierra Madre Oriental Chihuahuan Desert. Sierra Madre Occidental. Balsas Basin. Yucatan Peninsula. Sierra Madre del Sur. Veracruzan.

Habitat: 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. Leaf litter (of various species) and soil of the Tehuacan Valley. Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Soil and litter of Guarea glabra . Agave detritus. Collected on epiphytes: Aechmea bracteata growing on Haematoxylum campechianum and Metopium brownei . Soil in acahual and coffee plantations. Associated with nests of Neotoma albigula ( Rodentia : Muridae ). Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986): 34–144; Estrada-Venegas et al. (1988): 231; Sánchez & Bassols-Batalla (1993): 394; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 144; Montiel-Parra et al. (2001): 590–591; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 272; Marín-Castro (2006): 24–64; Vázquez et al. (2011). 53; Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Villagomez et al. (2019): 14636; Ibarra-Garibay (2021): 65; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.