Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925

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

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925

Figure 67

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925: 9 ; Švec 1997: 216 (ex Cyrtusa ). Holotype male in BMNH, not seen. Type locality: Grenada.

Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.3 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.0 mm. Reddish brown, shining, microsculpture absent. Head punctures variable in size and density. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum flat, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, irregularly punctate laterally; medial punctures smaller. Male mesofemur with toothlike median and apical expansions of posterior margin. Male metafemur with acute toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin. Mesotibia broad and spinose in both sexes; metatibia narrower, spinose. Male with sparse pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 67 ) short and broad, with paired apices each bearing a toothlike lateral process. Parameres narrow, short, not reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate median tubelike structure. Spermatheca of two connected oblong structures.

Distribution. Known only from the islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia. Previously known only from “ Grenada ” with no additional locality data.

New records. Grenada. Grand Etang Forest Reserve , N12°04.162’ W61°42.162’, 10–28.VIII. 10, 400 m, rain forest FIT, S. Peck, 10-63 (15, SBPC) ; Grand Etang Forest Reserve , N12°04.846’ W61°42.333’, 9– 28.VIII. 10, 360 m, rain forest FIT, S. Peck, 10-61 1, SBPC). St. Vincent. Hermitage Forest E of Spring Village, N13°14.86’ W61°12.77’, 15–27.VIII.06, forest FIT, 348 m, S. & J. Peck, 06-102B (1, SBPC) ; same data except 16–27.VIII.06, 06-103B (5, SBPC) ; same locality, 15–27.VIII.06, forest edge malaise, 340 m, 06-104A (1, SBPC) ; same locality, 23-27.VIII.06, forest edge FIT, 340 m, 06-104B (1, SBPC). ST. LUCIA. Bordelais trap site, 13.9689°N 60.8859°W, 25–29.VI.2009, FIT, M.L. Gimmel & E.A. Ivie (4, WIBF) .

Figures

Figures 65–69. Aedeagi of Zeadolopus. 65) Z. dominica, dorsal view. 66) Z. nesiotes, dorsal view. 67) Z. conicitarsus, dorsal view. 68, 69) Z. angulatus, dorsal and lateral view. Scale line = 0.30 mm.