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
Aglyptinus dominica
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figures 104, 105
Diagnostic description
. Length
1.1–1.9 mm
; greatest width
0.8–1.4 mm
. Shining; color dark reddish brown; antennae, pronotal margins, tibiae, tarsi and elytral epipleura paler. Pronotum moderately finely punctate; punctures larger and more dense on head and elytra. Antennae reaching base of pronotum. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Metasternum with dense lines of microsculpture medially and laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Posterior margin of major male metafemur weakly concave; metatibia elongate; inner metatibial spine elongate, sinuate at apex. Aedeagus (
Fig. 104, 105
) elongate, slender, strongly arched, roundly curved dorsoventrally, depressed dorsally at apical fourth in lateral view; apex truncate, flat in dorsal view. Parameres straight, evenly narrowed from base to apex.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES:
DOMINICA
/
Middleham Falls
trail,
Cochrane
/
N15 20.922’
W61 20.747’
,
650 m
/ Forest FITs,
31.V–11.VI.2004
/
S. & J. Peck
, 04- 93” (
SBPC
)
.
Paratypes
(51) with the following label data: with same data as holotype (19,
SBPC
; 3, FSCA; 3,
MCZC
; 3, FMNH)
;
same data except:
Forest
litter
Berlese
, 04-93A (1,
SBPC
)
;
Dominica
:
Springfield Estate
,
31.V–16.VI.2004
,
N15 20.841’
W61 22.000’
,
400m
,
Mt. Joy House
, wet montane forest, FIT,
S. & J. Peck
, 04-89 (3,
SBPC
)
;
same data except:
550m
, ridgetop forest above
Mt. Joy
, 04-90 (2,
SBPC
)
;
Dominica
:
Sindicate Estate
trail, E. of
Dublanc
,
N15 31.202’
W61 25.015’
,
560m
,
Montane rain forest carrion trap
,
2–14.VI.2004
,
S. & J. Peck
, 04-97 (11,
SBPC
)
;
same data except: FIT, 04-98 (1,
SBPC
)
;
Dominica
:
Springfield Estate
,
4–6.VI.2004
,
N15 20.841’
W61 22.000’
,
550m
,
Ridgetop forest
above
Mt. Joy
,
dung trap
,
S. & J. Peck
, 04-100 (1,
SBPC
)
;
Dominica
:
Sindicate Estate
trail, E. of
Dublanc
,
N15 31.202’
W61 25.015’
,
560m
,
Montane
rain forest,treebase litter
Ber.
,
13.VI.2004
,
S. & J. Peck
, 04-105 (2,
SBPC
)
;
Dominica
:
Cochrane
, west of
Morne Macaque
,
15°20.852 N
61°20.698 W
,
26.IV.2006
,
2300 ft.
701m
],
Z. Prusak
(2,
FSCA
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from
Dominica
.
Etymology
. The epithet
dominica
refers to
Dominica
where this species occurs.