Zeadolopus longipes 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 : 31-32

Zeadolopus longipes Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 58

Diagnostic description. Body moderately convex. Length 2.4–3.4 mm; greatest width 1.6–2.4 mm. Dark reddish brown, weakly shining, with dense reticulate microsculpture. Head punctation moderately fine and dense. Antennal club darker than funicle, elongate. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides moderately rounded, posterior angles distinct, obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed, strial punctures large and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad and convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, shallowly punctate laterally, with smaller punctures medially. Femora and tibiae not sexually dimorphic; male pro- and mesotarsi slightly more densely setose ventrally. Mesofemur with 2 toothlike processes on apical half of posterior margin; mesotibia broad, strongly spinose on outer margin. Metafemur slender, posterior margin weakly concave; metatibia elongate, slender, with several smaller spines on outer margin. First metatarsomere elongate, at least as long as metatarsomeres 2–4 combined. Metatarsomere 2, in both sexes, bearing strong spine that is longer than metatarsomere 3. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 58 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices down-turned. Parameres broad, inwardly curved and truncate apically, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with pair of parallel rod-like structures. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: LaVega Prov. / PN. A.Bermudez, Cienaga/ 19.VII–2.VIII.95, 1020m/ trop. evgrn. for., FIT/ S.+ J. Peck, 95-34” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (50) have the following label data: same data as holotype (16, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: 1010m, 95-33 (10, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: 1000m, 95-32 (16, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: 1100m, 95-36 (8, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet longipes (Latin, longi-, long; pes, foot) refers to the long first metatarsomeres of this species.

Figures

Figures 50–58. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 50) Z. exiguus. 51) Z. hatomayor. 52) Z. hispaniolensis. 53) Z. iviei. 54) Z. jarabacoa. 55) Z. lavega. 56) Z. minisculus. 57) Z. nanus. 58) Z. longipes. Scale line = 0.20 mm, Fig. 50, 57; 0.30 mm, Fig. 51–56; 0.40 mm, Fig. 58.