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into, Dean
2010
Journal
Cuetzalan, Puebla, Mexico
Nov. 18
Drove to Cuetzalan from DF, arriving around 20:00. Misty foggy and
rainy, made drive hard. Found a small lygid (E. mystuspanum?)
on a wall in front of the entrance to the cemetery. Stayed at the
Posada Jackeline- cheap, no bills. Today, went to searching at Yehualichan-
very nice. Looked in a nearby cafetal from 10:55-11:30, but it had
almost no logs or leaf litter and I found nothing. A little further up
the road to Cuetzalan, I searched in an area of secondary forest
with some coffee + bananas from 11:40-12:30. Found a single adult
Chiropteristria under the leaf of a green banana tree. It almost looked
like a B. pufersang - have never seen a Chiripa in this kind of habitat
before. It has a somewhat yellow dorsal color and small front feet; back feet
look a little unusual as well. David Wake thinks it's not a Chiripa
based on the specimen he examined- we shall see. Drove back to
Cuetzalan after a fruitless 30min search of a plot of secondary forest w/
bananas that a local man took me to. Continued on to higher
elevation areas and searched for 30-45 min in a highly disturbed
area that used to be oak cloud forest; found a Pheogaster
(mexicanus?). I spent most of the day searching for habitat rather
than actually searching. It was fairly cold all day; foggy in
the morning, turning into light rain around 12:00. I drove
to Oaxte to spend the night at the Hotel Mariay
Jose- really nice and a bargain at MX320.