Microtegeus mexicanus Mahunka, 1983

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 : 71

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5465.1.1

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scientific name

Microtegeus mexicanus Mahunka, 1983
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Microtegeus mexicanus Mahunka, 1983 View in CoL .

Distribution: Neotropical.

Records in Mexico: Chiapas and Quintana Roo.

Biogeographic province: Chiapas Highlands. Yucatan Peninsula.

Habitat: Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Low flooded rainforest. Pitfall traps in medium rainforest, Mangrove ( Conocarpus erectus ) and Ciricote ( Cordia dodecandra ). Leaf litter under trees and bushes in a secondary semi-evergreen tropical forest.

References: Mahunka (1983): 276–277; Balogh & Balogh (1988): 109; Vázquez (1999): 75; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 152; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 274; Alamilla-Pastrana et al. (2012): 52; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Ermilov & Yurtaev (2023b): 389.

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