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 grenadensis
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figures 112, 113
Diagnostic description
. Length
1.1–1.7 mm
; greatest width
0.9–1.3 mm
. Shining; color dark reddish brown; clypeus, appendages, pronotal margins and elytral epipleura paler. Head and pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; elytral punctures larger, more dense. Antennae not reaching base of pronotum. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Metasternum lacking microsculpture medially; dense lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Major male mesofemur broader than metafemur; metatibia elongate; inner metatibial spine elongate, curved, sinuate apically. Aedeagus (
Fig. 112, 113
) evenly, roundly curved dorsoventrally; flattened, acute at apex. Parameres constricted before apex.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES:
GRENADA
/
Grand Etang Forest Reserve
/
N12°04.846’
,
W61°42.333’
/ 9–28.VIII.
10, 360 m
, Rain/ forest FIT.,
S. Peck
, 10-61” (
SBPC
)
.
Paratypes
(62): with same data as holotype (27,
SBPC
)
;
same data except: forest malaise, 10-60 (1,
SBPC
)
;
same data as holotype except:
N12°04.162’
,
W61°42.162’
, 10–28.VIII.
10, 400 m
, rain forest malaise, 10-62 (2,
SBPC
)
;
with same data except: rain forest FIT, 10-63 (12,
SBPC
; 3,
MCZC
; 3, FMNH)
;
same data except: 15–18.VIII.10,
carrion trap
, 10-70 (5,
SBPC
)
;
same data as holotype except: 15–18.VIII.10,
carrion trap
, 10-71 (4,
SBPC
)
;
Grenada
:
Par. St.
Andrews,
Grand Etang Forest
,
29.VIII.1990
, nutmeg shell berlese,
J. Telesford
(3,
FSCA
)
;
Grenada
:
Grand Etang N.P.
,
Beausejour View Tr.
, ±1970’,
4.XI.1991
,
C.W. & L.B. O’Brien
(2,
WIBF
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from
Grenada
.
Etymology
. The epithet
grenadensis
(
Grenada
+ the Latin suffix
-ensis
, locality) refers to the occurence of this species on
Grenada
.