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 nanus
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figure 57
Diagnostic description
. Body strongly convex. Length 1.0–
1.1 mm
; greatest width
0.7 mm
. Yellow to light brown, shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, moderately sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. 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 coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller medially. Mesofemur unmodified in both sexes. Male metafemur with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin; metafemur unmodified in female. In both sexes, meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (
Fig. 57
) elongate, broad, with inwardly curved, paired apices. Parameres slender, straight or weakly curved, reaching beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure divided in basal half. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]:
San Cristobal
/ Prov. Borbon,
Cuevas
/
Pomier
, trop. decid. for./
200m
, leaf litter, 28.VII./ 95, S.+
J. Peck
, 95- 48” (
SBPC
)
.
Paratypes
(6) have the following label data: same data as holotype except: FIT, 13–28.VII.95, 95-23 (4,
SBPC
)
;
same data except: 28.VII–5.VIII.95 (2,
SBPC
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from Hispaniola.
Etymology
. The epithet
nanus
(Latin, little) refers to the small size of this species.