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Paints, Dean
2005
Journal
Nov. 6
Mountains near Panguiz above Jaticapan; Depto. Jaticapan, Guatemala.
We left San Marcos this morning to drive back to Guatemala City. We stopped at Km 122 on Ruta Nacional 1 between Palestina de los Altos and San Juan Ostuncalco, at Caserio Los Alonzo, and searched for about 40 min.
Carlos found 1 B. meria under a stone (GPS at car - 14.87396° N, 91.65903° W [WGS84; 15m acc.], 2762m elev.). Dave Wake had found B. rostrata and P. sex here, but we saw neither. The habitat was forested with large pine trees. We drove on, passed [illegible] through Jaticapan and took the road to Panguiz to get to the type locality of B. rostrata ("heights above Jaticapan"). We stopped on the road past Panguiz for ~40 min and searched in a forest with dense undergrowth and bromeliads, but only found Scalperias.
We continued down the road and stopped just past the town of Rancho de Tejo, where the dirt road became extremely muddy. There was pine forest past the last house in town, and many large stumps with peeling bark and rotting logs in or near the forest. It was raining and fairly cold. We searched in the logs for ~45 min and found a total of 38 B. rostrata (14.87225° N, 91.26493° W [WGS84; 7m acc.], 2955m elev.). Ernesto found 1 with a clutch of eggs) and Carlos found a huge adult. I found 15, 13 of which were in the same huge rotting log, with the other 2 under bark of stumps. We were on the right side of the road looking out from town. We left and drove back to Guatemala City, arriving quite late.