Scapheremaeus spp.

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Scapheremaeus spp.

Scapheremaeus sp. 1 –5, 7–18: Ríos (1997).

Scapheremaeus sp. 1 –2: Villagomez et al. (2017).

Records in Mexico: Puebla, State of Mexico, Veracruz, Yucatan, Jalisco, Mexico City, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Morelos, Campeche, Queretaro, Quintana Roo, Chiapas, Hidalgo and Coahuila.

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

Habitat: Orchid bulbs, Cacti and Bougainvillea sp. leaf. Soil, litter and moss. Leaf litter (of various species) and soil of the Tehuacan Valley. Soil and litter of Abies religiosa forest. Leaf litter of Poulsenia armata and Nectandra ambigens , canopy of Astrocarium mexicanum . Epiphytic mosses and lichens. Canopy of low deciduous forest. Rocks in an archaeological zone. Canopy. Moss on rocks. Lichens and mosses on branches and trunks. Tillandsia sp. Mangrove litter. Leaf litter and soil with biological crusts. 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. Soil and litter in a deciduous forest. Collected on epiphytes: Aechmea bracteata growing on Haematoxylum campechianum and Metopium brownei . Xerophytic vegetation. Associated with trunks of Persea americana . Soil ( Pinus hartwegii ). Pitfall trap in xerophytic shrubland. Xerophytic shrub, composed mainly of succulents and cacti ( Myrtillocactus geometrizans ).

References: Hammer (1969): 71; Palacios-Vargas (1985): 47–110; Riverón (1985): 123; Moreno (1985): 33; Estrada-Venegas & Sánchez (1986): 34–144; Palacios-Vargas (1988): 151–152; Estrada-Venegas et al. (1988): 231; Ojeda (1989): 25–76; Ríos (1997): 25–39, 43–81; Agustín (2000): 44–47. Hoffmann & López-Campos (2000): 158; Hoffmann & López-Campos (2002): 275; Iglesias et al. (2008): 16–17; Vázquez (2008): 12; Vázquez et al. (2011): 56;. Sánchez-Rocha (2014): 37–38; Villarreal-Rosas et al. (2014): 517; Villagomez et al. (2017): 32; Navarrete-Jiménez et al. (2017): 37. Ojeda & Gasca-Pineda (2019): 35; Figueroa (2021): 45–46; Ibarra-Garibay (2021): 65; Estrada-Venegas et al. (2021): 223; García-Ayala (2024): 54–55.

Remarks: Hammer (1969) does not provide the exact location of the collection site for his species reports.