Oxyporus ( O .) lawrencei Campbell, 1974

Márquez, Juan, Asiain, Julieta & Fierros-López, Hugo E., 2005, A new species of Oxyporus (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxyporinae) from Mexico, with notes on some poorly known species, Zootaxa 954, pp. 1-12 : 9-10

Oxyporus ( O.) lawrencei Campbell, 1974

Material. One female: “ México: Distrito Federal, Delegación Milpa Alta, límite sur con Morelos. 3300 m. Bosque de pino. En hongo sobre tronco. 15­IX­1998. J. Márquez col./ Oxyporus lawrencei Campbell, 1974 , J. Márquez det. 2003” (CC­UAEH).

Discussion. This species was described based on two males from “Eslava, Mexico ”, a locality that could not be found in atlases and gazetteers (Selander & Vaurie 1962; Campbell 1974). However, this locality is specified in the “Biologia Centrali­Americana” as being in the Distrito Federal, at an elevation of 8000 feet (Selander & Vaurie 1962). The newly discovered female specimen confirms that O. lawrencei does indeed occur in Distrito Federal. This species has also been recorded from Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan and Morelos ( Navarrete­Heredia et al. 2002). Females of O. lawrencei have not been described previously ( Campbell 1974). Although our female specimen generally agrees with the original description (based on males: Campbell 1974), we did observe some differences which are summarized in Table 1 .

The outer apical angles of the elytra are black. The black spot is extended to the entire poste­

rior margin of the elytra.

Procoxae black. Procoxae are black only in the basal half and red

in the apical half.

Mesocoxae red. Mesocoxae are black in the basal half and red in

the apical half.

Mesosternum red. Mesosternum black.

Not commented in the original description. Scutellum dark (additional character).

Not commented in the original description. Each elytron with two irregular longitudinal

rows of punctures (additional character).

Tables

TABLE 1. Some differences and additional characters observed in the recently collected female of Oxyporus lawrencei in comparison to the original description of the species based on males (Campbell 1974).

The type specimens	(males)	The examined female specimen
Body length 6.5­6.6 mm.		Body length 9.3 mm.
Temples 1.25 times as long as	eyes.	Temples 1.36 times as long as eyes.