A new paper (of which I am a co-author), published in the latest issue of The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, gives the results of a systematic survey of Buprestidae in a tropical deciduous forest at El Limón de Cuauchichinola, municipality of Tepalcingo, in Morelos, Mexico. Four subfamilies, 12 tribes, 19 genera, and 73 species were recorded, with the genera Agrilus Curtis, 1825, Chrysobothris Eschescholtz, 1829, and Acmaeodera Eschscholtz, 1829 having the greatest number of species. We estimate that only 68% of buprestid species occurring in the forest were recorded. An appendix lists the species, of which eight represent new records for the Sierra de Huautla Biosphere Reserve and two represent new records for the state of Morelos.

Corona-López, A. M., Reza-Pérez, E. V., V. H. Toledo-Hernández, A. Flores-Palacios, T. C. MacRae, R. L. Westcott, H. A. Hespenheide & C. L. Bellamy. 2017. Diversity of Buprestidae (Coleoptera) from El Limón de Cuauchichinola, Tepalcingo, Morelos, Mexico. The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 93(2):71–83 [pdf].

© Ted C. MacRae 2017