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
Zeadolopus exiguus
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figure 50
Diagnostic description
. Body strongly convex. Length 1.0–
1.3 mm
; greatest width
0.7–0.9 mm
. Yellowish brown to reddish brown, shining, without microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large, closely spaced; interstriae finely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum with coarse, irregularly spaced punctures laterally; punctures smaller medially. Male mesofemur weakly produced near base of posterior margin; mesofemur unmodified in female. Male metafemur with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin; metafemur unmodified in female. In both sexes, meso- and metatibia broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (
Fig. 50
) elongate, broad, with inwardly curved, paired apices. Parameres moderately slender, weakly curved, extending beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure. Spermatheca tubular, weakly curved, weakly constricted at middle.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]:
Pedernales
/ 28 kmN
Cabo Rojo
,
760m
/ evergreen dry forest/ 29.XI–3.XII.91,
intercept
/ trap, Masner & Peck, 91-349” (
SBPC
)
.
Paratypes
(15) have the following label data: same data as holotype except: 26 kmN
Cabo Rojo
,
565 m
, 91-347 (8,
SBPC
)
;
DOM. REP.,
Pedernales
, 4kmW
Oviedo
,
10 m
, arid thorn forest, 28.XI–4.XII.91,
intercept traps
,
Masner
&
Peck
, 91-344 (1,
SBPC
)
;
DOM. REP.,
Prov.
Pedernales
,
24 km
N.
Cabo Rojo
,
610 m
.
,
20.VIII–9.IX.1988
,
flight intercept trap
,
M.A. Ivie
,
T.K. Philips
&
K.A. Johnson
(3,
WIBF
)
;
DOM. REP.,
Prov.
Pedernales
, ca.
35 km
N.
Cabo Rojo
,
1250m
,
Las Abejas
,
26.VIII–9.IX.1988
,
flight intercept trap
,
M. Ivie
,
Philips
&
Johnson
(2,
WIBF
)
;
DOM. REP.,
Barahona
, 7 kmNW
Paraiso
, rainforest remnant, 27.XI–4.XII.91,
intercept
tp,
Masner
&
Peck
, 91-341 (1,
SBPC
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from Hispaniola.
Etymology
. The epithet
exiguus
(Latin, small) refers to the small size of this species.