New Country and State Records of Uncommon Species of Staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Mexico and Guatemala
Author
Márquez, Juan
Author
Asiain, Julieta
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2021
2021-12-31
75
4
871
881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/0010-065x-75.4.871
journal article
10.1649/0010-065X-75.4.871
1938-4394
13252264
Cyparium terminale
Matthews, 1888
First Record for the State of
Puebla
(
Fig. 3a
). “
Mexico
:
Puebla
,
Honey
,
Chila de Juárez
,
San Marcos river
, 20°17ʹ40.3ʹʹN, 98°13ʹ36.6ʹʹW,
1500 m
, cloud forest,
interception fly trap
,
8 to 15-VIII-2019
,
J. D. Silva
,
R
. Ramírez and
J. Márquez
cols.” (
5♂
,
3♀
)
.
Previous Records
(
Fig. 3a
).
Mexico
: Estado de
México
(without precise locality),
Hidalgo
(Chapulhuacán: Arroyo Blanco, Tlanchinol: La Cabaña, Xochicoatlán: Malila river),
Jalisco
(without precise locality),
Michoacán
(Ocampo: Laguna Seca),
Morelos
(Tlayacapan: San José de los Laureles),
Oaxaca
(Santiago Jamiltepec: El Monroy, Santiago Yosondua: La Cascada-road to El Vergel, km 3 road Santo Domingo Tepuxtepec-Juquila Mixes) and
Veracruz
(Chocaman, Huatusco: km 30 road Fortín-Huatusco, Fortín de las
Flores
: Barranca Metlac, Sierra de Atoyac: Atoyaquillo, Xalapa);
Guatemala
and
Panama
(
Márquez 2007
;
Márquez and Asiain 2017
;
Navarrete-Heredia
et al
. 2002
;
Pedraza
et al
. 2010
).
Fig. 2.
Geographic distribution in Mexico and Guatemala. A)
Agerodes amethystinus
(red circles) and
Homalolinus affinis
(blue squares), B)
Homalolinus mexicanus
(red circles) (arrow indicates that the distribution extends south of Mexico and Guatemala; maps modified from
INEGI 2018
).
Biogeographic Comment.
This species probably follows the distributional pattern and cenocron named Mountain Mesoamerican (
Halffter 2017
;
Morrone 2015
), but its record in
Panama
is not completely concordant with this pattern or cenocron, which implies the expansion of taxa from the nucleus of Central America (north of
Nicaragua
,
El Salvador
,
Honduras
and
Guatemala
) toward the humid mountains of
Mexico
.
Color Variation.
Márquez (2007)
analyzed the color pattern in some specimens of
C. terminale
, where he found three predominant forms: one black, one reddish, and a third paler (possibly teneral). The specimens analyzed here correspond to the predominantly black form, with two reddish spots on each elytron, one near the humerus and the other towards the external posterior corner; the elytral epipleura and pronotal hypomeron are partially reddish, with legs bicolored and reddish at the anterior margin of some abdominal segments. The coloration of most of the studied specimens (7) is similar to that presented in fig. 1c of that work, except for one in which the elytra are completely black. The predominantly black specimens were collected in
Morelos
,
Oaxaca
and
Veracruz
. Later,
Pedraza
et al
. (2010)
and
Márquez and Asiain (2017)
recorded it in
Hidalgo
, but the color variation of these specimens has not yet been analyzed.