Benoibates 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 : 147

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Benoibates sp.
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Benoibates sp.

Records in Mexico: Veracruz, Jalisco, Coahuila and Campeche.

Biogeographic province: Veracruzan. Pacific Lowlands. Chihuahuan Desert. Yucatan Peninsula.

Habitat: Decaying trunks of Bursera simaruba and Spondias mombin . 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. Collected on epiphytes: Aechmea bracteata growing on Haematoxylum campechianum and Metopium brownei .

References: Estrada-Venegas (2000): 21; Agustín (2000): 44–47; Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Ibarra-Garibay (2021): 63.

Agustin, S. (2000) Contribucion al estudio de los acaros arboricolas oribatidos (Acarida: Cryptostigmata) de la selva baja caducifolia en Chamela, Jalisco, Mexico. Bachelor's Tesis, Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Puebla. 62 pp.

Estrada-Venegas, E. (2000) Acaros oribatidos (Acari: Oribatida) asociados a troncos en descomposicion (Spondias monbin y Bursera simaruba). Doctoral Dissertation, Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, Texcoco. 77 pp.

Ibarra-Garibay, L. (2021) Efecto del forofito en la comunidad de microartropodos asociados a Aechmea bracteata (SW.) Griseb. (Bromeliaceae) en el sur de Campeche. Master's Thesis, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Ciudad de Mexico. 78 pp.

Ojeda, M. & Gasca-Pineda, J. (2019) Abundance and diversity of the soil microarthropod fauna from the Cuatro Cienegas Basin. In: Alvarez, F. & Ojeda, M. (Eds.), Animal diversity and biogeography of the Cuatro Cienegas Basin. Springer Nature, Cham, pp. 29 - 51. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 11262 - 2 _ 3