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
Eucatops
(
Eucatops
)
annulus
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figure 2
Diagnostic description.
Total length
2.5 mm
; greatest width
1.4–1.5 mm
. Reddish brown to dark reddish brown, shining; antennae and mouthparts paler. Antennomeres II and III subequal in length; club shorter than 6 basal antennomeres combined; width of antennomere VIII nearly twice length; apical antennomere shorter than antennomeres IX + X. Eye reduced to semicircle containing about15 facets. Elytra fused at suture; with densely punctate, transverse strioles. Without functional flight wings. Spermatheca (
Fig. 2
) ring-shaped. Male unknown.
Type material
.
Holotype
, female, with the following label data: “DOM.REP.:
Santiago Prov.
/ PN
A. Bermudez
,
9km
SW/
Cienaga
,
Redondo
,
2000m
/ 24.VII.95, shrub litter/
S. & J. Peck
, 95-49” (
SBPC
)
.
Paratypes
(
2 females
) with the following label data: same data as holotype (1,
SBPC
)
;
DOM. REP.: Prov.
Santiago
, Par. Nac. Armando Bermudez,
19°02’N
70°57’W
,
2485m
,
08APR1992
,
M.A. Ivie
, pine stump w/ slime molds (1,
WIBF
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from Hispaniola.
Remarks
. Without male specimens we cannot place this species in relationship to the other 30 known species in the subgenus occurring in Central and South America (
Salgado 2010
).
Etymology
. The epithet
annulus
(Latin, ring) refers to the shape of the spermatheca of this species.