Scheloribates durhami Woolley 1971

Arachnida - Acariformes - Scheloribatidae

Alternative combination: Liebstadia durhami

Full reference: T. A. Woolley. 1971. Fossil oribatid mites in amber from Chiapas, Mexico (Acarina : Oribatei = Cryptostigmata). University of California Publications in Entomology 63:91-99

Belongs to Scheloribates according to J. A. Dunlop et al. 2013

See also Woolley 1971

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: UCMP 13558, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is UCMP B-7047, Simojovel, which is in a Miocene terrestrial amber in the Mazantic Shale Formation of Mexico.

Distribution: found only at UCMP B-7047, Simojovel

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