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
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5184089
1942-1354
5184089
84BA7373-8A5C-4E98-B132-8DDC2607CD48
Key to species of male
Creagrophorus
of the West Indies
1. Posterior margin of metafemur with a single large toothlike process at apex; pre-apical process absent.
St. Vincent
and
Grenada
...............................
C. unidentatus
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
— Posterior margin of metafemur with two toothlike processes .....................................................
2
2(1). Pre-apical process of posterior margin of metafemur elongate, slender, as long as or longer than apical process ..............................................................................................................................
3
— Apical toothlike process of posterior margin of metafemur distinctly larger than reduced, apically directed pre-apical process .........................................................................................................
4
3(2). Pre-apical toothlike process of posterior margin of metafemur distinctly longer than apical process.
Cuba
...................................................................................
C. cubensis
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
— Toothlike processes of posterior margin of metafemur subequal in length. Hispaniola ............... .................................................................................
C. hispaniolensis
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
4(2). Inverted internal sac with two distinct clusters of larger spines (
Fig. 123, 125, 127
) ..............
5
— Inverted internal sac with scattered small spines, without distinct clusters of larger spines (
Fig. 119
) ..............................................................................................................................................
7
5(4). Apical process of posterior margin of metafemur large, broad at base, elongate, curved, narrowing to acute apex; pre-apical process reduced to small denticle. Hispaniola .................................... ..............................................................................
C. microdenticulus
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
— Apical processes of posterior margin of metafemur not large, broad at base, elongate, curved, narrowing to acute apex; known only from the Lesser Antilles ..............................................
6
6(5). Dorsum with distinct, strong punctation; apical two-thirds of mesotibia abruptly, strongly widened; aedeagus (
Fig. 122
) depressed before apex.
Dominica
...
C. dominica
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
— Dorsum finely, sparsely punctate; mesotibia not abruptly widened; aedeagus (
Fig. 126
) not depressed before apex ...................................................................
C. sanctalucia
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
7(4). Bicolored: head and pronotum dark brown, elytra light yellowish brown; aedeagus (
Fig. 118
) evenly curved dorsoventrally.
Martinique
...........................
C. bicolor
Peck and Cook
,
n.sp.
— Unicolorous reddish brown; aedeagus (
Fig. 116
) weakly depressed before apex.
Jamaica
........... ...................................................................................................................
C. jamaicensis
Peck