Phanolinus speciosus Sharp, 1884

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 : 877

Phanolinus speciosus Sharp, 1884

First CountrY Record for Guatemala ( Fig. 1a ). “ Guatemala: El Progreso, SanAgustínAcasaguastlán, Los Albores, Sierra de Las Minas , 15°03.750ʹN, 89°56.620ʹW, 1670 m, cloud forest, on decaying log, 29-XI-1999, J. Márquez col.” (1♂) .

First Record for Oaxaca State ( Fig. 1a ). “ Mexico: Oaxaca , Los Chimalapas , San Antonio, Boca Montaña, 16.669400°N, 94.213367°W, 1270 m, cloud forest, direct collection, 16-VII-2018, A. Ramírez-Ponce and D. Curoe cols.” (2♂, 1♀) .

Previous Records ( Fig. 1a ). Mexico: Veracruz (Córdoba) and Chiapas (Escuintla: 2 km from San Juan Panamá and 8 km from Nueva Morelia, 15°23.920ʹN, 92°30.412ʹW) ( Márquez et al. 2015).

Biogeographic Comment. This species probably shows the cenocron and distributional pattern of Mountain Mesoamerican since it is recorded in Guatemala and the humid mountains of the Mexican southeast.

Figures

Fig. 1. Geographic distribution in Mexico and Guatemala.A) Aneucamptus crassus (red circles), Philonthus navarretei (green triangles) and Phanolinus speciosus (blue squares), B) Oxyporus flohri (red circles) (arrow indicates that the distribution extends south of Mexico and Guatemala; maps modified from INEGI 2018).