First records of the fungus beetles Aegithus hogei Gorham, 1888 and Aegithus melaspis Gorham, 1888 (Coleoptera: Erotylidae) in Sonora, Mexico

[摘要] Beetles in the Erotylinae subfamily of the Erotylidae areprimarily fungus feeders, mostly on macrobasidiomycetes(Skelley et al. 1991). Aegithus hogei Gorham, 1888 is onlyknown from the type locality in Guerrero, México (Alvarenga 1994, Blackwelder 1945, Gorham 1887-1899, Kuhnt1909). Aegithus melaspis Gorham, 1888 is known fromGuatemala, Nicaragua, and México. In México, it has beenreported from the states of Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán,Oaxaca, and Veracruz (Navarrete-Heredia. and NoveloGutiérrez 2000). Here we provide new distributional dataand field notes for the two species of Aegithus in Sonora innorthwestern México.

[学科分类] 昆虫学

[关键词] Coleoptera;Erotylidae;Sonora;records