Aglyptinus longipalpus 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 : 52

Aglyptinus longipalpus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 98, 99

Diagnostic description. Length 1.3–1.5 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.0 mm. Shining; color yellowish to dark reddish brown; pronotal margins, labrum and palps paler. Head, pronotum and elytra finely, sparsely punctate. Antennae elongate, extend beyond pronotal base. Maxillary palps elongate, penultimate palpomere broadly expanded. Eyes reduced to a few facets. Wings strongly reduced. Metasternum with minute scattered punctures medially, fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Male legs otherwise unmodified. Aedeagus ( Fig. 98, 99 ) short, dorsoventrally angulate near base; fairly abruptly narrowing and flattening at apex. Parameres absent.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: INDEPENDENCIA / 32km NW La Descubierta / sabanaReal, 1800 m, cloud/ forest moss & litter, 26.XI.1991 / S. & J. Peck, 91-334” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (17): with same data as holotype (16, SBPC) ; same data except: 30km NW La Descubierta , 1646 m, cloud forest carrion, 25.XI.1991, 91-331 (1, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet longipalpus (Latin, long palp) refers to the elongate maxillary palps of this species.

Figures

Figures 92–115. Aedeagi, lateral and dorsal apical views, of Aglyptinus. 92, 93) A. puertoricensis (from Peck 1972). 94, 95) A. angulatus. 96, 97) A. grandis. 98, 99) A. longipalpus. 100, 101) A. hispaniolensis. 102, 103) A. kaszabi. 104, 105) A dominica. 106, 107) A. martiniquensis. 108, 109) A. luciae. 110, 111) A. parvus. 112, 113) A. grenadensis. 114, 115) A. vincentii. Scale line = 0.30 mm, Fig. 92-95, 98-115; 0.45 mm, Fig. 96, 97.