Microtegeus spp.

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Microtegeus spp.

Microtegeus 4 spp.: Vázquez et al. (2011).

Records in Mexico: Morelos, Veracruz, Quintana Roo, Jalisco, Campeche and Chiapas.

Biogeographic province: Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Veracruzan. Yucatan Peninsula.

Habitat: Soil. Mangrove litter. Soil and litter outside a cave. Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin . Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Pitfall traps in medium rainforest, Mangrove ( Conocarpus erectus ) and Ciricote ( Cordia dodecandra ). Collected on epiphytes: Aechmea bracteata growing on Haematoxylum campechianum and Metopium brownei .

References: Palacios-Vargas (1982): 537–543; Estrada-Venegas (2000): 20; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 152; Vázquez & Prieto (2001): 78–79; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 274; Vázquez (2008): 12; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009): 17–19; Alamilla-Pastrana et al. (2012): 52; Vázquez et al. (2016); 147–162; Vázquez et al. (2011): 55; Ibarra-Garibay (2021): 65.