Oripoda 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 : 149

Oripoda sp.

Records in Mexico: State of Mexico, Puebla, Jalisco, Quintana Roo and Coahuila.

Biogeographic province: Transmexican Volcanic Belt. Pacific Lowlands. Yucatan Peninsula. Chihuahuan Desert. Balsas Basin.

Habitat: Citrus sinensis . Soil, litter and moss. Canopy of low deciduous forest. 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. Associated with trunks of Persea americana . Pitfall trap in xerophytic shrubland.

References: Hammer (1969): 75; Palacios-Vargas (1985): 47–110; Palacios-Vargas (1988): 151–152; Agustín (2000): 44–47; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 160; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Iglesias et al. (2008): 16–17; Vázquez et al. (2011): 56; Navarrete-Jiménez et al. (2017): 37; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Estrada-Venegas et al. (2021): 223.

Remarks: Hammer (1969) does not provide the exact location of the collection site for his species reports.