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
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5184089
1942-1354
5184089
84BA7373-8A5C-4E98-B132-8DDC2607CD48
Aglyptinus jamaicensis
Peck 1972
Figures 84, 85
Aglyptinus jamaicensis
Peck 1972: 53
;
1978: 245
.
Holotype
male in MCZC, seen. Type locality:
2.5 mi
S Moneague, St. Ann Parish,
Jamaica
.
Diagnosis
. Length
1.1–1.6 mm
; greatest width
0.9–1.3 mm
. Shining; color dark reddish brown; appendages and elytral epipleura paler. Head, pronotum and elytra minutely, sparsely punctate. Antenna reaching base of pronotum. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes of moderate size. Wings fully developed. Metasternum with fine lines of microsculpture, transverse medially and diagonal laterally. Aedeagus (
Fig. 84, 85
) short and broad; in lateral view, weakly angled at middle, evenly narrowed to apex; in dorsal view, widened before apex. Parameres angled before apex.
Distribution
. Known only from
Jamaica
. Previously known localities, from
Peck (1972
, 1977).
Jamaica
. St. Andrew Parish. Hardwar Gap. St. Ann Parish.
2.5 mi
S Moneague. St. Thomas Parish. Corn Puss Gap.
New records
. None.
Remarks
. The species remains scarce and is known from moist forests in association with fleshy fungi, from
610 to 1220 m
elevation.