Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Humerobates rostrolamellatus
Ácaro, Mite
This species is found on fruit trees and used as a bioindicator of air pollution. In Galapagos, it was found in moist, partially-decayed leaf litter.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Arachnida
Order
Oribatida
Superfamily
Ceratozetoidea
Family
Humerobatidae
Genus
Humerobates
Species
rostrolamellatus
Taxon category: Accepted
This species was incorrectly listed in Schatz (1998) as Porozetes sp.
- Schatz, H. (2024) Some Ceratozetoidea species (Acari: Oribatida: Ceratozetidae, Humerobatidae) from the Galapagos Islands Acarologia, 64(2), 463-479.
- Schatz, H. (1998) Oribatid mites of the Galápagos Islands - faunistics, ecology and speciation. Experimental & Applied Acarology 22: 373-409.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Humerobates rostrolamellatus", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=25340. Accessed 1 November 2026.