Rostrozetes 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 : 140-141

Rostrozetes sp.

Records in Mexico: Guerrero, Hidalgo, Tabasco, Campeche, Quintana Roo, Oaxaca, Coahuila, Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Puebla, Veracruz, Queretaro and Morelos.

Biogeographic province: Sierra Madre del Sur. Veracruzan. Pacific Lowlands. Yucatan Peninsula. Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Chihuahuan Desert. Balsas Basin. Sierra Madre Oriental.

Habitat: Soil, roots, litter and detritus of a cave. Soil and litter of cloud mountain forest. Soil in a cave. Littoral zone. 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 and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Organic matter ( Aquila chrysaetos canadensis nests). Soil and litter in a deciduous forest. Collected on epiphytes: Aechmea bracteata growing on Haematoxylum campechianum and Metopium brownei . Soil and litter outside a cave. Litter in alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ) and Cratylia argentea plantations. Xerophytic vegetation. Corn and alfalfa irrigated with sewage water. Pasture.

References: Palacios-Vargas (1983): 59; Hoffmann et al. (1986): 211; Palacios-Vargas (1988): 157; Quintero & Acevedo (1989): 89; Prieto & Vázquez (1996): 15; Palacios-Vargas et al. (1997): 35; Palacios-Vargas et al. (1998): 25; Palacios-Vargas et al. (1998): 47; Iglesias et al. (1999): 126; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 159; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Bernal-Rojas & Iglesias (2004): 58; Hoffmann et al. (2004): 259–260; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009): 17–19; Bernal et al. (2009): 992; Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Tome et al. (2015): 60; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Iglesias et al. (2019): 4; Damián et al. (2019): 8; Figueroa (2021): 50–51; Ibarra-Garibay (2021): 65.