Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America) Peck, Stewart B. Gnaspini, Pedro Newton, Alfred F. Zootaxa 2020 2020-02-18 4741 1 1 114 36VZY Jeannel, 1936: 152 Jeannel 152 1936 [151,517,944,971] Insecta Leiodidae Dissochaetus GBIF,CoL Animalia Coleoptera 20 21 Arthropoda species mexicanus  (assignment to group curtus); Szymczakowski, 1968: 18; Peck, 1977: 186(no new record); Salgado, 1999: 37, 2010b: 161(assignment to group), 2018a: 68; Peck & Cook, 2016: 85(type seen), 2017: 98.   Holotypemale in MNHN[in Peck & Cook, 2016(aedeagus missing—Note: we recently learned that there are glass slides with male genitalia of the type specimens studied by R. Jeannel and kept separate at the MNHNcollection (Michel Perreau, 2019, personal comm.; Jan Růžička, 2019, personal comm.—see Note under MNHN, in ‘Construction and Organization of the Catalog’), and this might be the case with this species), 2017; sex and number of specimens not given in original description, as in MNHNand BMNH, but a male was illustrated and may be interpreted as the holotype]. Type locality: México(inside of houses), [ Ciudad de México State], Mexico.  Distribution: Guatemala: Alta Verapaz Department; Honduras: Francisco Morazán Department; Mexico: Chiapas, Ciudad de México, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Morelos, Oaxaca, Puebla, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, and VeracruzStates; Nicaragua: Matagalpa Department. Biology: In upper elevation forests, at carrion.  Note: Not U.S.A.: The Texasrecord in Peck 1999c: 184is a misidentification and a species record now described as  D. texanus Peck & Cook, 2016: 96which probably is also in adjacent Mexicoand at least in the Sierra del Burro and Sierra del Carmen in Chihuahuaand/or Coahuila.