Zeadolopus jamaicensis (Peck) 1978

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 : 19-20

Zeadolopus jamaicensis (Peck) 1978

Figure 46

Zeadolopus jamaicensis (Peck) 1978: 250 ; Newton 1983: 174 (ex Apheloplastus ). Type male in CNCI, seen. Type locality: Windsor , Trelawny Parish, Jamaica .

Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 0.9–1.4 mm; greatest width 0.7–0.9 mm. Uniformly yellowish to light reddish brown, shining, without microsculpture. Head finely, moderately sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate, sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly or not impressed; strial punctures larger apically, absent basally; interstriae with minute, scattered punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, smooth, not carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally, punctures smaller medially. Male mesofemur with posterior margin expanded to form small toothlike processes medially and apically, with serrations between the processes in larger specimens; female with a broad process at apex of posterior margin. Male metafemur with posterior margin expanded to form large apical toothlike process; in female, rounded, shallow lobe. Meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose in both sexes. Male with more dense setae on meso- and metatarsi. Aedeagus ( Fig. 46 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres moderately slender, reaching near apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with pair of elongate rodlike structures separated medially. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1978). Jamaica. Trelawny Parish. Windsor, 500 feet [152m]. 5 mi N Alberttown. Portland Parish, 0.5 mi NE Ecclesdown. St. Andrew Parish. Hardwar Gap. Morces Gap, 1375 m. St. Ann Parish. 1 mi S Claremont.

New records. Jamaica. Ocho Rios, Fern Gully, FIT, 19.II–1.III.84, D. Lindeman (25, SBPC).

Remarks. The species is known only from forest litter, from about 150 m to 1375m elevation.

Figures

Figures 44–49. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 44) Z. bicolor. 45) Z. carinatus. 46) Z. jamaicensis (from Peck 1977). 47) Z. microps (from Peck 1977). 48) Z. acinaces. 49) Z. caborojo. Scale line = 0.30 mm.