Scheloribates spp.

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 : 155

Scheloribates spp.

Neoscheloribates sp : Castaño et al. (2001).

Scheloribates spp. 1 –3: Villagomez et al. (2017).

Scheloribates (Perscheloribates) sp.: Villagomez et al. (2017).

Scheloribates (Scheloribates) spp. 1–2: Revelo-Tobar et al. (2022).

Scheloribates (Topobates) sp. (= Setobates sp. ): Iglesias et al. (2019).

Records in Mexico: Puebla, Colima, Mexico City, Morelos, Guerrero, Campeche, Jalisco, Hidalgo, San Luis Potosi, Michoacan, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, State of Mexico, Queretaro, Veracruz and Tabasco.

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

Habitat: Tillandsia sp. Soil, litter and moss. Leaf litter (of various species) and soil of the Tehuacan Valley. Soil, litter and detritus of a cave. Soil and guano in a cave. Grassland soil and litter. Litter in a cave. Soil and litter of Abies religiosa forest. Tree canopy. Canopy of low deciduous forest. Leaf litter ( Pinus cembroides ). Agricultural soil. Soil and litter of Astrocaryum mexicanum and Guarea glabra, Canopy. Phoretic in Tragosoma sp. ( Cerambycidae ). Soil and litter in coffee plantations and forest. Soil and litter in a deciduous forest. Collected on epiphytes: Aechmea bracteata growing on Haematoxylum campechianum and Metopium brownei . Moss. Soil in acahual and coffee plantations. Litter in Cratylia argentea plantations, subtropical forest. Xerophytic vegetation. Pinus michoacana and Quercus rugosa forest. Associated with trunks of Persea americana . Water Lily. Soil ( Pinus hartwegii ). Pasture and pine forest. Moss. Soil in coniferous forest. Soil in avocado plantations. Quercus spp. and Abies religiosa soil. Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Palacios-Vargas (1981): 64–65; Palacios-Vargas (1982): 537–543; Palacios-Vargas et al. (1982): 140; Palacios-Vargas (1983): 59; Palacios-Vargas & Morales (1983): 165; Palacios-Vargas et al. (1985). 47–110; Palacios-Vargas et al. (1985): 139; Riverón (1985): 123; Moreno (1985): 34; Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986): 34–144; Hoffmann et al. (1986): 142; Ojeda (1987): 7–8; Carlos (1988): 38; Palacios-Vargas (1988): 151–152; Palacios-Vargas (1988): 157; Mayagoitia & Bassols-Batalla (1989): 88; Ojeda (1989): 25–76; Quintero & Acevedo (1989): 89; Sánchez (1989): 91; Palacios-Vargas & Gamboa-Vargas (1997): 89; Agustín (2000): 44–47; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 160; Castaño et al. (2001): 20; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2003): 290–291; Bernal-Rojas & Iglesias (2004): 58; Hoffmann et al. (2004): 259–260; Estrada-Bárcenas (2005): 28–70; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2005): 27; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2006): 16; Marín-Castro (2006): 24–64; Iglesias et al. (2008): 16–17; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009): 17–19; Palacios-Vargas et al. 2011): 119; Salvador de Jesús (2014): 95; Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Salazar-Santana (2016): 71–72; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2016): 154; García (2017): 106–140; Villagomez et al. (2017): 32; Iglesias et al. (2019): 4; Figueroa (2021): 47–48; Ibarra-Garibay (2021): 63; Estrada-Venegas et al. (2021): 223; Revelo-Tobar et al. (2022): 2; Iglesias & Palacios-Vargas (2023): 8–9; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.