Aglyptinus hemipterus 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 : 50-51

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5184089

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:84BA7373-8A5C-4E98-B132-8DDC2607CD48

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5192301

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D71E87FC-FFD5-FFF1-FF10-F8CCFED453AD

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scientific name

Aglyptinus hemipterus Peck and Cook
status

sp. nov.

Aglyptinus hemipterus Peck and Cook View in CoL , new species

Figures 86, 87 View Figures 70–91

Diagnostic description. Length 1.8–1.9 mm; greatest width 1.3 mm. Shining; color dark reddish brown; antennae, palps and tarsi paler. Head moderately finely, sparsely punctate; pronotum and elytra finely, sparsely punctate. Antenna about as long as width of head. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes of moderate size. Wings reduced to about half normal length. Metasternum finely, sparsely punctate medially; with fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Major male metafemur and metatibia longer than in female. Aedeagus ( Fig. 86, 87 View Figures 70–91 ) elongate, slender; strongly, roundly arched dorsoventrally; upturned apex elongate, narrow. Parameres narrow, straight.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ JAMAICA: St. Thomas / WhitfieldHall, 4200’/ 1.I.73, S&J Peck/ B255, forest litter” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (6): with same data as holotype (2, SBPC) ; Jamaica : Middlesex , St. Ann Mt., Diablo, 5mi. [8.04 km] S. Moneague, 28.III.1991, T.K. Phillips (4, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica.

Etymology. The epithet hemipterus (Greek, hemi-, half; pterus, wing) refers to the reduced wing size of this species.

WIBF

West Indian Beetle Fauna Project Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Aglyptinus

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