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
Creagrophorus unidentatus
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figures 130, 131
Diagnostic description
. Length
1.1–1.6 mm
; greatest width
0.9–1.2 mm
. Shining; dark reddish brown to nearly black, appendages paler. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur with single large toothlike process at apex, no process on mesofemur. Aedeagus (
Fig. 130, 131
) strongly curved dorsoventrally, dorsal margin depressed before apex; inverted internal sac with scattered small spines and two apical clusters of larger spines.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES:
St. Vincent
/
Hermitage Forest
,
E of Spring
/
Village
,
N13°14.86’
W61°12.77’
/ 16–27.VIII.06, forest edge malaise/
340 m
,
S. & J. Peck
, 06-104A” (
SBPC
)
.
Paratypes
(14): with same data as holotype (1,
SBPC
)
;
same data except: 23- 27.VIII.06, forest edge FIT, 06-104B (2,
SBPC
)
;
same data except: 15–27.VIII.06,
348m
, 06-102B (3,
SBPC
)
;
same data except:
clearing malaise trap
, 06-101A (1,
SBPC
)
;
same data except:
clearing FIT trap
, 06-101B (1,
SBPC
)
;
same data except: 16-27.VIII.06,
forest FIT trap
, 06-103B (1,
SBPC
)
;
Grenada
:
Grand Etang Forest Reserve
,
N12°04.162’
W61°42.162’
, 10–28.VIII.
10, 400 m
, rain forest FIT,
S. Peck
, 10-63 (5,
SBPC
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from the islands of
St. Vincent
and
Grenada
.
Etymology
. The epithet
unidentatus
(Latin
uni
, one;
dentatus
, toothed) refers to the single toothlike process on the posterior margin of the male metafemur of this species.