Ctenacarus araneola Grandjean, 1932

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 : 10

Ctenacarus araneola Grandjean, 1932

Distribution: Pantropical and subtropical.

Records in Mexico: Yucatan, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Chiapas and Veracruz.

Biogeographic province: Yucatan Peninsula. Veracruzan.

Habitat: Litter in a cave. Flooded lowland rainforest leaf litter. Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin . Pitfall traps in medium rainforest. Leaf litter under trees and bushes in a secondary semi-evergreen tropical forest.

References: Palacios-Vargas (1993): 161; Vázquez (1999): 35–37; Estrada-Venegas (2000): 20; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 143; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 272; Hoffmann et al. (2004): 259–260; Vázquez et al. (2011): 53; Alamilla-Pastrana et al. (2012): 52; Vázquez et al. (2016): 150; Ermilov & Yurtaev (2023b): 387.