Zeadolopus caymanensis 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 : 25-26

Zeadolopus caymanensis Peck and Cook , new species

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Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.5 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.2 mm. Yellowish to yellowish brown, shining, faint reticulate microsculpture on elytra. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed; strial punctures large, closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsley punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller and evenly spaced medially. Mesofemur with posterior margin evenly expanded in both sexes. Male metafemur with acute, curved, toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin. Meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose in both sexes. Male with dense pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 38 ) broad, with inwardly curved paired apices. Parameres slender, reaching slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with anterior long setae, pair of short sclerites angled basad, and 2 long median sclerotized structures aligned consecutively. Spermatheca of 2 connected structures of unequal size, one spherical, the other larger and more elongate.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “CAYMAN: Grand/ Cayman, Mastic Trail S/ FIT, 20–29 May 2009 / R. Turnbow ” ( FSCA) . Paratypes (12) with same data as holotype (6, FSCA; 6, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Grand Cayman Island of the Cayman Islands group.

Etymology. The epithet caymanensis (Cayman + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the type locality of this species on Grand Cayman Island.

Figures

Figures 37–43. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 37) Z. bahamensis. 38) Z. caymanensis. 39) Z. atratus. 40) Z. cubensis. 41) Z. flavidus. 42) Z. lucidus. 43) Z. pusillus. Scale line = 0.30 mm.