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 .