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Shade coffee plantations are considered reservoirs of local flora and fauna. Epiphytic bromeliads are an important component of flora that inhabit not only shade trees, but also coffee bushes in the southeast of Mexico. At the same time, these plants shelter a diversity of arthropods poorly documented. We chose Catopsis minimiflora as the species studied because this bromeliad is abundant in coffee plantations and has a specialized reproductive system (dioecy). We counted the number of individuals of C. minimiflora growing over coffee bushes and shade trees and collected 58 bromeliads from coffee bushes in two seasons (dry and rainy). We registered 2,048 arthropods (including 21 orders and 71 families) that inhabit these plants. Our findings indicate that the bromeliad size affected the arthropod family richness, whereas the dominance of the most abundant arthropod families was affected by the season, being higher in the rainy season. We estimated that 27,215.5 arthropods/ha in the dry season and 31,227 arthropods/ha in the rainy season inhabited C. minimiflora that grows over coffee bushes. This arthropod community associated with C. minimiflora could provide ecosystem services, such as pollination or depredation in a coffee agroecosystem, therefore removing individual plants inevitably has negative impacts on the species’ abundance, and in turn, it may have an impact on arthropods associated with them. Inglés