Passalozetes 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 : 124

Passalozetes sp.

Records in Mexico: Puebla, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Hidalgo and Aguascalientes.

Biogeographic province: Balsas Basin. Chihuahuan Desert.

Habitat: Leaf litter (of various species) and soil of the Tehuacan Valley. Organic matter ( Aquila chrysaetos canadensis nests). 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. Litter in low deciduous forest. Pitfall trap in xerophytic shrub. Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986): 34–144; Estrada-Venegas et al. (1988): 231; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 158; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Navarrete-Jiménez et al. (2017): 37; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Damián et al. (2019): 8; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.