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 pedernales
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figure 61
Diagnostic description
. Body strongly convex. Length
1.6–2.8 mm
; greatest width
1.2–2.1 mm
. Dark reddish brown to nearly black with paler appendages; elytra with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head moderately finely, irregularly punctate. Antenna paler than body, club slender. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly to not impressed; strial punctures coarse, closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, irregularly punctate laterally; moderately finely punctate medially. Male with tooth-like process at apex of posterior margin of metafemur. Female with broad tooth-like process at apex of posterior margin of mesofemur, and similar but smaller process on metafemur. Meso- and metatibiae moderately broad, spinose in both sexes. Male pro- and mesotarsi more densely setose than in female. Median lobe of aedeagus (
Fig. 61
) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved at apex. Parameres slender, straight, extending to near apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rodlike structure. Spermatheca tubular, strongly angled medially, widened apically.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data:
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
. Prov.
Barahona
, nr. Filipinas,
Larimar Mine
,
26.VI–7.VII.1992
,
R.E. Woodruff
,
P. Skelley
,
flight trap
(
FSCA
)
.
Paratypes
(23) have the following label data:
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
: Prov.
Pedernales
, 24kmN
Cabo Rojo
,
610m
,
20–25AUG1988
, wet forest,
flight intercept trap
,
M. Ivie
, Philips & Johnson (1,
WIBF
). “REP.DOM. [
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
]:
Pedernales
/ Prov. Sierra
Baoruco
/ 31kmN Cabo Rojo/ 2500’,
XII-29-1986
/ Doyen & Santiago// broad leaf/ mesophyll/ association// ex flight/ trap” (4,
EMEC
; 4,
SBPC
). Prov.
Barahona
, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine,
26.VI–7.VII.1992
,
R.E. Woodruff
,
P. Skelley
,
flight trap
(10,
FSCA
; 4,
SBPC
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from Hispaniola.
Etymology
. The epithet
pedernales
(Latin noun in apposition) refers to the
type
locality of this species in
the Dominican
Republic province of
Pedernales
.