StaphYlininae, Latreille, 1802

Márquez, Juan & Asiain, Julieta, 2021, New Country and State Records of Uncommon Species of Staphylinids (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) from Mexico and Guatemala, The Coleopterists Bulletin 75 (4), pp. 871-881 : 875-876

SubfamilY StaphYlininae Tribe StaphYlinini

Subtribe Philonthina

Chroaptomus flagrans (Erichson, 1840)

First Record for the State of Puebla ( Fig. 3b ). “ Mexico: Puebla , Honey , Chila de Juárez, San Marcos River, 20°17ʹ40.3ʹʹN, 98°13ʹ36.6ʹʹW, 1500 m, cloud forest, fermented fruit trap, 8 to 15-VIII-2019, J. D. Silva Hurtado and J. Márquez cols.” (1♂) .

Previous Records. The records provided by Navarrete-Heredia et al. (2002) and Rodríguez et al. (2018) are not included in this work because they come from publications in which Chroaptomus mexicanus Chani-Posse and Navarrete-Heredia and Chroaptomus centralis Chani-Posse were not yet known, which were not distinguished from C. flagrans before their description ( Chani-Posse 2006). The records that we consider valid are those provided by Chani-Posse (2006) and Jiménez-Sánchez et al. (2011). They are as follows ( Fig. 3b ): Mexico: Chiapas (La Trinitaria: Lagunas de Montebello, 11 mi NW of Ocozocoautla), Estado de México (Malinalco), Hidalgo (6.6 mi SW of Chapulhuacán), Jalisco (Volcán de Tequila), Oaxaca (6–12 mi S of Valle Nacional) and Veracruz (Córdoba: Guadalupe del Barrial, Huatusco, Xico: cascada Texolo); Guatemala (without locality data), Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

Additional localities in Mexican states where the species has been previously recorded (sex not determined) include the following ( Fig. 3b ): “Chiapas, cerca de San Juan Panamá, camino a El Triunfo, 15°23.920ʹN, 92°30.412ʹW, 1480 m, bosque tropical y cultivo de café, en hojarasca y bajo rocas de riachuelo, 22-XI-1999, J. Márquez col.” (9 specimens) . “ Hidalgo , Chapulhuacán, delante de Palomas, 21°5ʹ25.6ʹʹN, 99°1ʹ18.7ʹʹW, 1443 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, en troncos podridos, 8-IV-2006, J. Márquez y J. Asiain cols.” (1 specimen) . “ Hidalgo , Chapulhuacán, El Infiernillo, 21°7.524ʹN, 98°58.001ʹW, 500–850 m, bosque tropical subcaducifolio, en hojarasca cernida, 20-IV-2013, J. Márquez col.” (15 specimens) . “ Hidalgo , Huehuetla, Rio Blanco, UTM 14594809E, 2257303N, 588 m, bosque tropical subcaducifolio, necrotrampa (calamar), 1 a 30-V-2010, C. Berriozábal col.” (37 specimens) . “ Hidalgo , Huejutla de Reyes, Tulastitla, 21°04ʹ21.9ʹʹN, 98°32ʹ48.9ʹʹW, 770 m, bosque tropical, en naranja podrida, 15-X-2006, J. Márquez y J.Asiain cols.” (1 specimen) . “ Hidalgo , Jacala de Ledezma, camino a La Cañada, 20°00ʹ40.08ʹʹN, 99°6ʹ31.8ʹʹW, 1474 m, bosque de pino-encino, trampa de intercepción de vuelo # 2, 31-III a 7-IV-2009, J. Márquez col.” (4 specimens) . “ Hidalgo , Juárez, 20°47ʹ9.6ʹʹN, 98°49ʹ5.2ʹʹW, 1970 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, trampa de intercepción de vuelo #2, 7 a 14-III-2009, J. Márquez, M. Rivero, M. Torres, M. Vargas y J. Sánchez cols.” (8 specimens) . “ Hidalgo , Molango de Escamilla, Acuatitlán, 20°45ʹ38.4ʹʹN, 98°42ʹ50.7ʹʹW, 1715 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, necrotrampa (calamar) #7, 15 a 29-IV-2011, J. Márquez col.” (1 specimen) . “ Hidalgo , Tlanchinol, La Cabaña, 21°01.333ʹN, 98°38.650ʹW, 1462 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, trampa de intercepción de vuelo #3, 15 a 22-IV-2006, C. Ortiz y M. C. Pedraza cols.” (1 specimen) . Same data, except: “en hongos de repisa, 16- IV-2003, J. Márquez y J. Asiain cols.” (1 specimen) . “ Hidalgo , 3 km N de Tlanchinol, 21°1.328ʹN, 98°38.77ʹW, 1450 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, necrotrampa (calamar), 16-IV a 1-V-2003, J. Asiain y J. Márquez cols.” (5 specimens) . “ Hidalgo , Zacualtipán, camino a Tizapán, 20°39.076ʹN, 98°36.055ʹW, 1690 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, trampa de intercepción de vuelo #1, 14 a 28-IV-2011, J. Márquez col.” (1 specimen) . “ Hidalgo , Zacualtipán, La Mojonera, 1886 m, 20°37ʹ59ʹʹN, 98°35ʹ48ʹʹW, bosque mesófilo de montaña, en hojarasca de riachuelo cernida, 25-IV-2002, J. Asiain y J. Márquez cols.” (2 specimens) . “ Veracruz , Córdoba, camino a Plan de Ayala, 18°57ʹ15.2ʹʹN, 96°58ʹ41ʹʹW, 1352 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, necrotrampa (calamar), 20-III a 17-IV-1999, J. Asiain, Q. Santiago y J. Márquez cols.” (1 specimen) . “ Veracruz , Huayacocotla, San Antonio, 20°40ʹ42.3ʹʹN, 98°23ʹ19.3ʹʹW, 1434 m, bosque mesófilo de montaña, necrotrampa (calamar) #1, 1 a 28-V-2006, F. Ramírez col.” (2 specimens) . “ Veracruz , Totutla, Mata Oscura, 1 km S de Zacuapam, 921 m, bosque tropical subcaducifolio, en pulpa de café podrido, 19-III-1999, J. Asiain, G. Rodríguez, Q. Santiago y J. Márquez cols.” (11 specimens) .

Biogeographic Comments. This species belongs to a Neotropical lineage ( Chani-Posse 2006) and follows the typical Neotropical cenocron ( Morrone 2015) or the distributional pattern of the same name (wide penetration, sensu Halffter 2017).

Figures

Fig. 3. Geographic distribution in Mexico and Guatemala. A) Cyparium terminale (red circles), B) Chroaptomus flagrans (blue circles) (arrow indicates that the distribution extends south of Mexico and Guatemala; maps modified from INEGI 2018).