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Pratts, Sean
2007
Journal
Erica, Zachut and Bishopo del Quetzal, Purulha, Depto. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala (cont.)
May 1 ...
Fed and I each found a B. helmrichi; both were in bromeliads. We decided that we should search some primary forest as well, so we headed back to the Bishopo after lunch.
We walked up the trail from the guards' area to the researchers' cabin (in construction) and searched bromeliads and some logs from 15:00 - 16:30. I found a juvenile B. helmrichi in a huge spiky bromeliad. We then walked over past Campamento 1 and up the road/path to the World Wildlife Fund cabin. We opened quite a few bromeliads along the way, continuing up until the trail ended above the cabin. I found 2 B. helmrichi and Carlos got 1. We turned around and were ready to leave, but opened a few bromeliads along the way that we missed on the way up. I opened a Brazilian one and got a subadult Cryptotheca wiesespasis! I was very excited, since this species was the main reason we came to Purulha. The vent is gray-brown, not yellow as in the one from the Sierra de las Minas. It got dark and we drove to the Hotel Langerone, near Rio Hondo,
Depto. Zacapa.