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Karito, Dean
2009
Journal
Montañas de Pina Blanca, Cuiles, Depts. Huehuetenango, Guatemala (cont.)
Jan. 12 ... The area where we stopped to work has been logged, but there were still pine and oak trees and tons of logs. Ted and worked mostly in exposed, drier areas in logs and got 1 B. medio, 1 Acelospus and 1 Mesaspis each. Carlos and Jacobo worked more in the forest and got 6 B. medio (in and under logs), 3 L. rex juveniles in logs and a Dendrostemon rallei in a bromeliad in an oak tree. I joined them and found another juvenile L. rex in a log and 2 big A. rallei in a single bromeliad in an oak tree (1 of 2 it opened).
searched here approx. 2 hrs.
We drove back towards the gate and stopped in an oak-pine-madrone forest with tons of bromeliads that looked a lot like the D. "chigsum" site near Palagua. We spent bromeliads for ~45 min. and Jacobo found a big Allemania. This is the first one I have ever seen, and it is really beautiful. We drove back to CA-1 and spent the night at the Hotel El Reposo.
La Cumbre, Montañas de Cuiles, Depts. Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Jan. 13 We drove from El Reposo up into the Montañas de Cuiles, past El Paraíso to "La Cumbre," the high point on the road to
We found a single D. rallei here in 2007. We worked the same area as then, walking up a trail S of the road from 2800-3500m.
Bromeliads were abundant near the road, and I got a tiny Andris, a B. medio and a B. lincolnii in bromeliads. This forest has been logged, has cows in it and looks in worse shape than it did over a year ago. We searched here from 10:00-13:00, in both bromeliads and logs. Carlos got a big B. lincolnii from inside a log.