Rostrozetes ovulum ovulum Berlese, 1908

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 : 141-142

Rostrozetes ovulum ovulum Berlese, 1908

Rostrozetes?foveolatus : Hammer (1969).

Rostrozetes foveolatus : Estrada-Venegas (2000); Vázquez (1999); Vázquez & Prieto (2001); Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000); Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002); Bernal-Rojas & Iglesias (2004); Estrada-Bárcenas (2005); Marín-Castro (2006); Iglesias et al. (2008); Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009); Bernal et al. (2009); Vázquez et al. (2011); Alamilla-Pastrana et al. (2012); Vázquez et al. (2016); Villagomez et al. (2019).

Trachyoribates (Rostrozetes) foveolatus : Palacios-Vargas et al. (2011).

Distribution: Pantropical and subtropical.

Records in Mexico: Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, State of Mexico, Puebla, Oaxaca, Queretaro and Veracruz.

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

Habitat: Potatoes. Litter in a cave. Leaf litter and soil of medium sub evergreen forest, lowland forest, mangrove and halophyte vegetation. Soil and litter of fallow, cloud mountain forest and coffee plantations. Soil and litter of Astrocaryum mexicanum and Guarea glabra . Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin . Pitfall traps in medium rainforest. Moss. Soil and litter of coffee plantations, acahual and forest. Soil in acahual and coffee plantations. Soil and litter outside a cave.

References: Hammer (1969): 74; Vázquez (1999): 102; Estrada-Venegas (2000): 21; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 159; Vázquez & Prieto (2001): 78–79; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Estrada-Bárcenas (2005): 28–70; Bernal-Rojas & Iglesias (2004): 58; Marín-Castro (2006): 24–64; Iglesias et al. (2008): 16–17; Guzmán-Sánchez & Iglesias (2009): 17–19; Bernal et al. (2009): 992; Palacios-Vargas et al. (2011): 119; Vázquez et al. (2011): 56; Alamilla-Pastrana et al. (2012): 52; Vázquez et al. (2016): 147–162; Villagomez et al. (2019): 14637.

Remarks: Hammer (1969) and Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000) did not provide the exact location of the collection site for his species reports.