Aglyptinus fortipunctatus 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 : 49

Aglyptinus fortipunctatus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 76, 77

Diagnostic description. Length 1.2–1.7 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.2 mm. Moderately shining; color yellowish to light reddish brown, paler maculae at elytral apices. Head and pronotum finely, moderately sparsely punctate; elytra coarsely, densely punctate. Antennae short, reaching middle of pronotum. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Metasternum finely, sparsely punctate medially; densely covered with fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Major male mesofemur broader than metafemur; metafemur with concave posterior margin; mesotibia elongate; inner metatibial spine elongate with curved apex. Aedeagus ( Fig. 76, 77 ) weakly curved dorsoventrally, depressed before evenly tapered, acute apex. Parameres evenly narrowing to slender apex.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: SANTIAGO PROV./ SANTIAGO, Jardin Botanico / 5.XII.1995, 50 m/ scrub forest litter/ S. Peck, 95-70” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (14): with same data as holotype except: 5–17.XII.1995, scrub forest FITs, 95-72 (10, SBPC) ; same data except: 5 m, disturbed forest, 95-74 (2, SBPC) ; Cuba : Santiago Prov., 6km NE Siboney, Rio Juragua, 150 m, 7.XII.1995, tree base litter, S. Peck, 95-86 (2, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Cuba.

Etymology. The epithet fortipunctatus (Latin forti-, strongly; punctatus, punctured) refers to the heavily punctate elytra 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.