Zeadolopus oviedoensis 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 : 34

Zeadolopus oviedoensis Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 59

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.7–2.0 mm; greatest width 1.2–1.4 mm. Reddish brown, shining, with reticulate microsculpture. Head moderately finely punctate, punctures separated by 1–2 diameters. Antenna unicolorous, slightly paler than body, club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate, sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. Elytral striae weakly impressed, strial punctures moderately coarse and dense; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, irregularly punctate laterally; finely, sparsely punctate medially. Male with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin of both meso- and metafemur. Meso-and metatibiae broad and spinose in both sexes. Tarsomeres unmodified in both sexes. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 59 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved at apex. Parameres slender, straight, extending slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac of aedagus with 2 parallel rod-like structures. Spermatheca of 2 connected parts, one twice diameter of the other.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pedernales / 4 km W Oviedo , 10m / arid thorn forest/ 28.XI–4.XII.91/ intercept traps / Masner & Peck, 91-344” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (7) with same data as holotype ( SBPC).

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet oviedoensis (Oviedo + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the type locality of this species near Oviedo in the Dominican Republic.

Figures

Figures 59–64. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 59) Z. oviedoensis. 60) Z. paulus. 61) Z. pedernales. 62) Z. puertoricensis (from Peck 1977). 63) Z. antiguensis. 64) Z. parvantilliensis. Scale line = 0.30 mm.