Aglyptinus maculus 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 : 53

Aglyptinus maculus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 88, 89

Diagnostic description. Length 1.6–1.7 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.2 mm. Shining; color dark reddish brown; antennae, palps and tarsi paler; yellowish macula at apex of each elytron. Head, pronotum and elytra minutely, sparsely punctate. Antenna short, about as long as width of head. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes of moderate size. Wings fully developed. Metasternum finely, sparsely punctate medially; with fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Major male mesofemur distinctly broader than metafemur; posterior margin of metafemur weakly concave; metatibia elongate. Aedeagus ( Fig. 88, 89 ) roundly arched dorsoventrally, sinuate apically, evenly narrowed to rounded apex. Parameres narrow, straight.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ JAMAICA: Ocho Rios/ Fern Gully FIT/ 19.II-1.III.84/ D. Lindeman ” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (2): with same data as holotype ( SBPC).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality on Jamaica.

Etymology. The epithet maculus (Latin, spot) refers to the pale spot at the apex of each elytron in this species.

Figures

Figures 70–91. Aedeagi, lateral and dorsal apical views, of Aglyptinus. 70, 71) A. bahamensis. 72, 73) A. biseriatus. 74, 75) A. capitaneus. 76, 77) A. fortipunctatus. 78, 79) A. minutus. 80, 81) A. sinuatus. 82, 83) A. dimorphicus (from Peck 1972). 84, 85) A. jamaicensis (from Peck 1972). 86, 87) A. hemipterus. 88, 89) A. maculus. 90, 91) A. parvoculus. Scale line = 0.30 mm, Fig. 70–73, 76–85, 88, 89; 0.35 mm, Fig. 74, 75, 90, 91; 0.45 mm, Fig. 86, 87.