Zeadolopus pedernales Peck and Cook, 2014

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2014, 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., Insecta Mundi 2014 (397), pp. 1-76 : 37

Zeadolopus pedernales Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 61

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.6–2.8 mm; greatest width 1.2–2.1 mm. Dark reddish brown to nearly black with paler appendages; elytra with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head moderately finely, irregularly punctate. Antenna paler than body, club slender. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly to not impressed; strial punctures coarse, closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, irregularly punctate laterally; moderately finely punctate medially. Male with tooth-like process at apex of posterior margin of metafemur. Female with broad tooth-like process at apex of posterior margin of mesofemur, and similar but smaller process on metafemur. Meso- and metatibiae moderately broad, spinose in both sexes. Male pro- and mesotarsi more densely setose than in female. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 61 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved at apex. Parameres slender, straight, extending to near apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rodlike structure. Spermatheca tubular, strongly angled medially, widened apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. Prov. Barahona, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine , 26.VI–7.VII.1992, R.E. Woodruff, P. Skelley, flight trap ( FSCA) . Paratypes (23) have the following label data: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prov. Pedernales, 24kmN Cabo Rojo , 610m, 20–25AUG1988, wet forest, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Philips & Johnson (1, WIBF). “REP.DOM. [ DOMINICAN REPUBLIC]: Pedernales / Prov. Sierra Baoruco / 31kmN Cabo Rojo/ 2500’, XII-29-1986 / Doyen & Santiago// broad leaf/ mesophyll/ association// ex flight/ trap” (4, EMEC; 4, SBPC). Prov. Barahona, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine, 26.VI–7.VII.1992, R.E. Woodruff, P. Skelley, flight trap (10, FSCA; 4, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet pedernales (Latin noun in apposition) refers to the type locality of this species in the Dominican Republic province of Pedernales.

Figures

Figures 59–64. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 59) Z. oviedoensis. 60) Z. paulus. 61) Z. pedernales. 62) Z. puertoricensis (from Peck 1977). 63) Z. antiguensis. 64) Z. parvantilliensis. Scale line = 0.30 mm.