Tectocepheus velatus elegans Ohkubo, 1981

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 : 114

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11615061
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scientific name	Tectocepheus velatus elegans Ohkubo, 1981
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Tectocepheus velatus elegans Ohkubo, 1981 View in CoL

Tectocepheus View in CoL ca. elegans View in CoL : Palacios-Vargas et al. (2003); Salazar-Santana (2016).

Tectocepheus elegans View in CoL : Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2005); Vázquez et al. (2016).

Distribution: Eastern Palearctic, Mexico and Vietnam.

Records in Mexico: Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Puebla and Quintana Roo.

Biogeographic province: Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Balsas Basin. Sierra Madre Oriental. Yucatan Peninsula.

Habitat: Agricultural soil. Tree canopy. Soil outside a cave. Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Litter in low deciduous forest.

References: Palacios-Vargas et al. (2003): 290–291; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2005): 27; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Iglesias et al. (2019): 5.