Creagrophorus jamaicensis Peck 1972

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 : 58

Creagrophorus jamaicensis Peck 1972

Figures 116, 117

Creagrophorus jamaicensis Peck 1972: 56 ; 1978: 249; Wheeler 1979: 461. Holotype male in INHS, seen. Type locality: Hermitage Dam, St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica.

Diagnosis. Length 1.2–1.4 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.1 mm. Shining, with faint iridescence; color medium to dark reddish brown, antennae paler. Punctation fine and sparse. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur with small toothlike process at apical fourth and large triangular process apically. Aedeagus ( Fig. 116, 117 ) evenly curved dorsoventrally, weakly depressed before apex; inverted internal sac ( Wheeler 1979, fig. 37) with scattered small spines.

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1972, 1978). Jamaica. Port Antonio. St. Andrew Parish. Hermitage Dam.

New records. Jamaica. Ocho Rios, Fern Gully, FIT, 19.II–1.III.84, D. Lindeman (1, SBPC).

Figures

Figures 116–131. Aedeagi, lateral and dorsal views, of Creagrophorus. 116, 117) C. jamaicensis (from Peck 1972). 118, 119) C. bicolor. 120, 121) C. cubensis. 122, 123) C. dominica. 124, 125) C. microdenticulus. 126, 127) C. sanctalucia. 128, 129) C. hispaniolensis. 130, 131) C. unidentatus. Scale line = 0.35 mm, Fig. 116, 117; 0.30 mm, Fig. 118–131.