A review of the small carrion beetles and the round fungus beetles of the West Indies (Coleoptera: Leiodidae), with descriptions of two new genera and 61 new species.
Author
Peck, Stewart B.
Author
Cook, Joyce
text
Insecta Mundi
2014
2014-10-31
2014
397
1
76
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5184089
1942-1354
5184089
84BA7373-8A5C-4E98-B132-8DDC2607CD48
Zeadolopus caymanensis
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figure 38
Diagnostic description
. Body strongly convex. Length
1.2–1.5 mm
; greatest width
0.9–1.2 mm
. Yellowish to yellowish brown, shining, faint reticulate microsculpture on elytra. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed; strial punctures large, closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsley punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller and evenly spaced medially. Mesofemur with posterior margin evenly expanded in both sexes. Male metafemur with acute, curved, toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin. Meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose in both sexes. Male with dense pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (
Fig. 38
) broad, with inwardly curved paired apices. Parameres slender, reaching slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with anterior long setae, pair of short sclerites angled basad, and 2 long median sclerotized structures aligned consecutively. Spermatheca of 2 connected structures of unequal size, one spherical, the other larger and more elongate.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “CAYMAN: Grand/ Cayman, Mastic Trail S/ FIT,
20–29 May 2009
/
R. Turnbow
” (
FSCA
)
.
Paratypes
(12) with same data as holotype (6,
FSCA
; 6,
SBPC
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from Grand Cayman Island of the
Cayman Islands
group.
Etymology
. The epithet
caymanensis
(Cayman + the Latin suffix
–ensis
, locality) refers to the
type
locality of this species on Grand Cayman Island.