Zeadolopus bicolor (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 : 18-19

Zeadolopus bicolor (Peck) 1978

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Zeadolopus bicolor (Peck) 1978: 253 ; Newton 1983: 174 (ex Apheloplastus ). Type female in CNCI, seen. Type locality: Goshen , St. Ann Parish, Jamaica .

Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 1.7–1.9 mm; greatest width 1.1–1.2 mm. Reddish brown, pronotum darker, head nearly black; shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head moderately coarsely, densely punctate. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate, sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse, separated by about 1 diameter; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, smooth, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller, irregularly spaced medially. Mesofemur with posterior margin weakly expanded in both sexes. Metafemur of male with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin; apex of posterior margin roundly expanded in female. Mesotibia broad and spinose in both sexes; metatibia less strongly spinose in female. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Aedeagus ( Fig. 44 ) elongate, broad; paired apices down-turned, appearing truncate in dorsal view. Parameres moderately slender, reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with median rodlike structure, subtended near base by pair of short, narrow sclerites. Spermatheca unknown.

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1978). Jamaica, St. Ann Parish, Goshen, 1500 feet [458m], 25.XII.73, S. & J. Peck, litter Berlese 257.

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

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.