Field notes, v4227
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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.