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.