Zeadolopus hatomayor 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 : 28-29

Zeadolopus hatomayor Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 51

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.3–2.0 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.5 mm. Dark reddish brown with paler venter and appendages; shining, without microsculpture. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae not impressed; strial punctures coarse, fairly closely spaced; interstriae finely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave; lateral margins of concavity forming carinae that converge at base. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate. Mesofemur broadly produced at apex of posterior margin in both sexes. Metafemur of male with toothlike expansion at apex of posterior margin; very weakly produced in female. In both sexes, meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 51 ) elongate, broad; paired apices inwardly curved, appearing blunt in dorsal view. Parameres moderately robust, with basal sinuation, reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure divided basally. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Prov. HatoMayor/ Par. Nac. Los Haitises/ W. of Sabana de la Mar/ 01–16APR1992, 10m, M.A./ Ivie, flight inter. trap” ( WIBF) . Paratypes (22) have the following label data: same data as holotype (3, WIBF) ; same data except: 01–02APR1992 (1, WIBF) ; same data except: Bosque humido, 16APR–1JUL1992 [elevation omitted] (8, WIBF; 8, SBPC) ; same locality as holotype, 02JULY1992 – 16JULY1993, D. Sikes & R. Rosenfield, flight intercept trap (1, WIBF) ; same data except: 18–21JULY1993 (1, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet hatomayor (Latin noun in apposition) refers to the Dominican Republic Province of Hato Mayor where this species occurs.

Figures

Figures 50–58. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 50) Z. exiguus. 51) Z. hatomayor. 52) Z. hispaniolensis. 53) Z. iviei. 54) Z. jarabacoa. 55) Z. lavega. 56) Z. minisculus. 57) Z. nanus. 58) Z. longipes. Scale line = 0.20 mm, Fig. 50, 57; 0.30 mm, Fig. 51–56; 0.40 mm, Fig. 58.