SCHELORIBATIDAE Jacot

Demite, Peterson R., Feres, Reinaldo J. F., Lofego, Antonio C. & Oliveira, Anibal R, 2009, Plant inhabiting mites (Acari) from the Cerrado biome of Mato Grosso State, Brazil, Zootaxa 2061, pp. 45-60 : 52-53

SCHELORIBATIDAE Jacot

Scheloribates praeincisus (Berlese)

Protoribates ( Protoribates) praeincisus Berlese, 1910: 384 .

Protoribates ( Scheloribates) praeincisus . — Berlese, 1916: 315; Sellnick, 1925: 82.

Scheloribates praeincisus . — Hammer, 1971: 43; Pérez-Iñigo, 1982: 232; Scull et al. Cruz, 1984: 172; Pérez-Iñigo & Baggio, 1986: 176; Balogh & Balogh, 1990: 100; Pérez-Iñigo & Baggio, 1991: 85; 1994: 195, 1996: 70, 1997: 404; Oliveira et al., 2001: 223; Subías, 2004: 201; Oliveira et al. 2005: 60.

Murcia insularis Oudemans, 1915: 195 . (synonymy according to Subías, 2004: 201).

Protoschelobates insularis . — Jacot, 1934: 41.

Scheloribates zaherii Abdel-Hamid et al., 1983 (synonymy according to Subías, 2004).

Origin of the specimens examined: Cerradão: C. langsdorfii , III-2005 (1); Hymenaea sp., V-2004 (1); Qualea sp., XI- 2004 (1).

Previous records. Brazil, Cuba, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji Islands, Guatemala, Hawaii, India, Iran, Java, Panama, Sri Lanka and USA ( Subías 2004).

Remarks: Originally described from Java, this is a common species in tropical and subtropical climates of the Oriental, Holoartic Meridional and Neotropical regions ( Subías 2004), and is quite frequent and abundant in secondary forests, pastures and agricultural soils in southeastern Brazil. Some specimens morphologically indistinguishable from those found in the soil have been sporadically recorded on bark, leaves and fruits of Myrtaceae and Arecaceae in Cerrado and Atlantic Forest ecosystems in the State of São Paulo (Oliveira et al. 2005).