Ochthebius (Gymnochthebius) oppositus (Perkins)

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Gymnochthebius oppositus Perkins 1980: 290

This very rarely collected species was formerly known from only four specimens. The following 69 specimens comprise many new collecting records, new depository records, and new state records for Sinaloa, Mexico, and Louisiana, U.S.A. Currently known from disjunct localities: Mexico: Baja California, Sinaloa, Veracruz; U.S.A.: Louisiana, Texas.

New records: Mexico: Baja California, Norte, 2.1 mi. S Rosarito, 23.iii.1981, leg. F. Andrews & D. Faulkner (8 CDFA) ; Jalisco, 25 mi NW of Barra de Navidad, (19°28’N, 104°56’W), 22.vii.1974, leg. M. E. & P. D. Perkins (5 MCZ) ; Sinaloa, Mazatlan, 2.xii.1984, leg. G. E. Bohart (2 Albert Allen) ; U.S.A.: Louisiana, Cameron Parish, Rockefeller WMA, HQ, (29°43.762’N, 92°49.03’W), 3.ii.2009, leg. S.-R. Kang (2 LSU) ; same locality, 17.ii.2009, leg. S.-R. Kang (2 LSU); Texas, Chambers Co., Anahuac National Wildlike Refuge, 3 mi. SE Visitor Booth, 20.ix.1993, leg. R. C. Vogtsberger (10 TAMU ( College Station)) ; Jefferson Co., J. D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area, 1.2 mi. S. Lost Lake, 29.iv.1995, leg. R. C. Vogtsberger (20 TAMU ( College Station) ; J. D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area, near Lost Lake, (29°47’N, 93°58’W), 26.v.1994, leg. R. C. Vogtsberger (20 TAMU (College Station )) .