Tectocepheus 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 : 114

Tectocepheus sp.

Tectocephalus sp. [sic.]: Palacios-Vargas et al. (2006).

Records in Mexico: Morelos, Puebla, State of Mexico, Hidalgo, Guerrero, Michoacan, Queretaro, Veracruz, Coahuila, Oaxaca and Colima.

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

Habitat: Soil, litter and moss. Leaf litter (of various species) and soil of the Tehuacan Valley. Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin . Soil and litter of fallow, cloud mountain forest and coffee plantations. 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. Soil and litter in a deciduous forest. Moss. Soil in acahual and coffee plantations. Soil and litter outside a cave. Litter in alfalfa ( Medicago sativa ) and Cratylia argentea plantations. Soil in avocado plantations. Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Riverón (1985): 123; Palacios-Vargas (1985): 47–110; Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986): 34–144; Palacios-Vargas (1988): 151–152; Estrada-Venegas et al. (1988): 231; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2000): 439–447; Estrada-Venegas (2000): 21; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 155; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 274; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2006): 16; Marín-Castro (2006): 24–64; Iglesias et al. (2008): 16–17; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009): 17–19; Bernal et al. (2009): 991; Salvador de Jesús (2014): 95; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 36; Figueroa (2021): 44–45; Iglesias & Palacios-Vargas (2023): 8–9; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.