Phanaeus mexicanus Harold, 1863
Recorded Distribution: MEXICO: Guerrero — Taxco de Alarcón, Teloloapan, Chilapa de Alvarez, Chilpancingo de los Bravo, Quechultenango, Acapulco de Juárez, México — Valle de Bravo, Joquicingo, Villa Guerrero, Morelos — Tepoztlán, Tlalnepantla, Tlayacapan, Cuernavaca, Atlatlahucan, Cuautla, Miacatlán, Ayala, Tlaquiltenango, Oaxaca — Dist. Tuxtepec, Puebla — San Diego la Mesa Tochimiltzingo, Tilapa, Veracruz — Calcahualco, Coscomatepec, Cotaxtla, Tezonapa, San Andrés Tuxtla, Catemaco.
Altitude: from 9 to 2147 m a.s.l.
Biomes: Tropical & Subtropical Coniferous Forests, Tropical & Subtropical Dry Broadleaf Forests, Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests.
Ecorregions: NEOTROPIC: Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests, Sierra Madre del Sur pine-oak forests, Balsas dry forests, Veracruz dry forests, Southern Pacific dry forests, Sierra Madre Oriental montane forests, Petén-Veracruz moist forests, Sierra de los Tuxtlas .
Predicted distribution: This species distributes from 15.68° to 20.2° latitude in an area of 114,139 Km2. Its predicted distribution has a mean annual temperature of 19.91-24.52° C with a maximum difference of temperature of 17.98° C during the year and mean precipitation of 883-1411 mm per year.