Vol. 106, No. 1, January & February, 1995 39 REDISCOVERY OF OXYPORUS FLOHRI, (COLEOPTERA: STAPHYLINIDAE), FROM MEXICO AND NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS OF TWO OTHER MEXICAN OXYPORUS 1,2 Jose Luis Navarrete-Heredia , Juan Marquez-Luna^ ABSTRACT: First state records for three Oxyporus species are provided: Oxyporus balli from Mexico, O. flohri from Veracruz, and O. mexicanus from Nayarit and Jalisco. The purpose of this paper is to confirm the distribution of O. flohri in Ver-acruz and to provide new distributional records of two other Mexican Oxy-porus. Specimens were collected associated with mushrooms as is usual in this genus. They are deposited in the following collections: Coleccion Entomolog-ica del Centre de Estudios de Zoologfa, Universidad de Guadalajara, Zapopan (CZUG); Instituto de Biologia, UNAM, Ciudad de Mexico (IBUNAM), Insti-tute de Ecologfa, Xalapa (IE), American Museum of Natural History, New York (AMNH), Canadian National Collection, Ottawa, (CNC), Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (FMNH), Snow Entomological Museum, Univer-sity of Kansas (KSEM), J.L. Navarrete, Zapopan (JLN), and J. Marquez-Luna, Ciudad de Mexico (JML). Oxyporus flohri Sharp Oxyporus flohri was described by Sharp (1887) based on two specimens collected by Mr. Flohr at Alto del Tizar, a questionable locality in Mexico. One century later, Campbell (1990) collected two females in Guatemala "from small gilled mushrooms", and suggested that its type locality is probably in the mountainous areas of Chiapas. Two years later, Navarrete-Heredia (1992) pro-vided a locality named Alto del Tizar in Veracruz, near Naolinco. However, since no specimens of O. flohri have been collected recently from or near Alto del Tizar in Veracruz, it is not certain that this locality is the same as the type locality. During a recent field trip by the junior author to Veracruz, one female specimen was collected at Xico, Coatepec (Fig. 1 ) associated with a fleshy 1 Received August 18, 1994. Accepted September 6, 1994. i Contribution Numb. 2 from Entomologfa, Centra de Estudios de Zoologfa, Universidad de Guadalajara. 3 -Entomologfa, Centra de Estudios de Zoologfa, CUCBA. Universidad de Guadalajara, Apdo. Postal 234, 45101 Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico. Lab. de Morfofisiologia Animal, Fac. de Ciencias, UNAM, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico. ENT. NEWS 106(1): 39-43, January & February' 1995
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