Aglyptinus minutus 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 : 54

Aglyptinus minutus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 78, 79

Diagnostic description. Length 1.0– 1.2 mm; greatest width 0.7–0.9 mm. Shining; color reddish brown to nearly black; pronotal margins, venter, elytral epipleura and appendages paler. Head, pronotum and elytra minutely, sparsely punctate. Antennae long, reaching beyond pronotal base. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes reduced to a few facets. Wings greatly reduced. Metasternum minutely, sparsely punctate medially; with fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose; male legs otherwise unmodified. Aedeagus ( Fig. 78, 79 ) short, broad, weakly arched dorsoventrally, rounded apically. Parameres lacking.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: Granma / Parque Nacional Pico Turquino / Aguada de Joachin / 1370m, 20.015 -76.840, 3.II.2012 / R. Anderson, dry mixed forest litter/ 2012-023” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (63): with same data as holotype (5, SBPC) ; with same data except: Cerro Joachin peak, 1660m, 20.013 -76.834, wet cloud forest litter, 2012-022 (49, SBPC; 3, FSCA; 3, MCZC; 3, FMNH) .

Additional material examined. CUBA: Santiago de Cuba: Parque Nacional Gran Piedra, near La Isabellica , 1075m, 20.003 -75.613, 27.I.2012, R. Anderson, wet pluviselva litter, 2012-008 (6, SBPC) ; same data except: 1115m, 20.007 -75.619, 29.I.2012, 2012-013 (2, SBPC) ; same data except: near Museo Isabelica, 2012-003 (12, SBPC) ; Cuba: Santiago Prov., Gran Piedra , Met. Radar , 6.XII.1995, 1100m, elfin forest litter, S. Peck, 95-75 (2, SBPC) ; same data except: Isabelica, 95-79 (1, SBPC) ; Cuba: Alto de Menmo?, Pico Caracas , 5.III.2013, suelo, F. Cala (11, SBPC) ; Cuba: Pico Caracas , 6.III.2013, suelo, F. Cala, A. Deler-H. (9, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Cuba.

Etymology. The epithet minutus (Latin, small) refers to the size of 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.