Aglyptinus parvoculus 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 : 55

Aglyptinus parvoculus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 90, 91

Diagnostic description. Length 1.4–1.7 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.3 mm; Shining, color dark reddish brown; appendages somewhat paler. Head, pronotum and elytra with moderately large, dense punctures. Antennae slight longer than width of head. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes strongly reduced; about half of normal size; formed of about 20-25 largerbut indistinct facets. Wings strongly reduced. Metasternum finely punctate medially; with fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Major male metafemur and metatibia elongate. Aedeagus ( Fig. 90, 91 ) slender, evenly curved dorsoventrally. Parameres narrow, straight.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ JAMAICA:/ Portland Gap/ dung bait, 1973/ S. & J. Peck ” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (11) with same data as holotype ( SBPC).

Distribution. Known only from the type locality on Jamaica.

Etymology. The epithet parvoculus (Latin parvus , small; oculus, eye) refers to the reduced eyes 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.