Beetles is one of the commonest group of insects associated with mushrooms. Some species are close related and shown high morphological modifications that usually are related with their ability to exploit this alimentary resource. Wheeler (1991) provided a checklist of the beetle species associated with mushrooms. In this paper, we provide an update of Wheeler’s checklist. Until now, there information information for 20 families and 180 species, however this is just a small number of the real diversity suspected for the country. Higher diversity is found in the family Staphylinidae with 60 species.
Species 1: Coleoptera Staphylinidae Oxyporus mexicanus
Species 2: Coleoptera Staphylinidae Belonuchus rufipennis
Species 3: Coleoptera Erotylidae Pselaphacus puncticollis
Keywords: Mushrooms
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