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 hatomayor
Peck and Cook
,
new species
Figure 51
Diagnostic description
. Body strongly convex. Length 1.3–2.0 mm; greatest width
0.9–1.5 mm
. Dark reddish brown with paler venter and appendages; shining, without microsculpture. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae not impressed; strial punctures coarse, fairly closely spaced; interstriae finely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave; lateral margins of concavity forming carinae that converge at base. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate. Mesofemur broadly produced at apex of posterior margin in both sexes. Metafemur of male with toothlike expansion at apex of posterior margin; very weakly produced 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. 51
) elongate, broad; paired apices inwardly curved, appearing blunt in dorsal view. Parameres moderately robust, with basal sinuation, reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure divided basally. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.
Type material
.
Holotype
, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Prov. HatoMayor/ Par. Nac. Los Haitises/ W. of Sabana de la Mar/
01–16APR1992
, 10m, M.A./ Ivie, flight inter. trap” (
WIBF
)
.
Paratypes
(22) have the following label data: same data as holotype (3,
WIBF
)
;
same data except:
01–02APR1992
(1,
WIBF
)
;
same data except:
Bosque
humido,
16APR–1JUL1992
[elevation omitted] (8,
WIBF
; 8,
SBPC
)
;
same locality as holotype,
02JULY1992
–
16JULY1993
,
D. Sikes
&
R. Rosenfield
,
flight intercept trap
(1,
WIBF
)
;
same data except:
18–21JULY1993
(1,
WIBF
)
.
Distribution
. Known only from Hispaniola.
Etymology
. The epithet
hatomayor
(Latin noun in apposition) refers to
the Dominican
Republic Province of
Hato Mayor
where this species occurs.