Oribatula 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 : 146

Oribatula sp.

Orbatula sp. [sic.]: Pearse (1936).

Zygoribatula sp. : Hammer (1969); Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986); Estrada-Venegas et al. (1988); Palacios-Vargas (1990); Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000); Martínez-Falcón (2006); Marín-Castro (2006); Martínez et al. (2015); Salazar-Santana (2016); Almeida et al. (2017); Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019); Figueroa (2021).

Zygoribatula sp. nov.: Ojeda (1989); Ermilov & Kontschán (2023).

Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Hidalgo, State of Mexico, Guerrero, Queretaro, San Luis Potosi, Durango, Mexico City, Oaxaca, Chihuahua, Puebla, Veracruz, Jalisco, Morelos and Coahuila.

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

Habitat: Dion edule and orchid plants. Leaf litter (of various species) and soil of the Tehuacan Valley. Grassland soil and litter. Soil and litter of Abies religiosa forest. Canopy of low deciduous forest. Pine and oak litter. Soil and Pitfall traps. 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. Litter in secondary semi-evergreen forest. Soil and litter in a deciduous forest. Soil in acahual and coffee plantations. Associated with nests of Neotoma albigula ( Rodentia : Muridae ). Litter in alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ) and Cratylia argentea plantations. Pinus sp. and Quercus sp. litter. Pitfall trap in xerophytic shrubland. Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Pearse (1936): 53; Hammer (1969): 74; Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986): 34–144; Estrada-Venegas et al. (1988): 231; Ojeda (1989): 25–76; Palacios-Vargas (1990): 31; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2000): 439–447; Agustín (2000): 44–47; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 159; Montiel-Parra et al. (2001): 590–591; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Martínez-Falcón (2006): 101; Martínez-Falcón (2006): 101; Marín-Castro (2006): 24–64; Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Martínez et al. (2015): 83–84, 89; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Almeida et al. (2017): 3; Navarrete-Jiménez et al. (2017): 37; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Figueroa (2021): 51–52; Ermilov & Kontschán (2023): 1118; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.

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