Creagrophorus bicolor 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 : 58-59

Creagrophorus bicolor Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 118, 119

Diagnostic description. Length 1.3–1.5 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.1 mm. Shining; head and pronotum dark brown; elytra, venter and appendages yellowish. Punctation moderately fine and sparse. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur medially with broad process angled toward apex; moderately long, acute process apically. Aedeagus ( Fig. 118, 119 ) evenly, shallowly curved dorsoventrally; inverted internal sac with scattered small spines and a few larger spines apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “LES[SER] ANT[ILLES]: MARTINIQUE / 4 km SW Le Marin, Morne Aca / N14°27.8 W60°53.9, 260 m / 13–28.VII.2012, Humid forest / Hilltop clearing FIT, S. Peck, 12-55” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (21): with same data as holotype (16, SBPC) ; MARTINIQUE: 4 km N Ste-Luce, Foret Montravail , 300 m, N14°29.9, W60°55.7, 11–28.VII.2012, humid forest FIT, S. Peck, 12-53 (5, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Martinique.

Etymology. The epithet bicolor (Latin bi -, two; color, color) refers to the contrasting dorsal coloration of this species.

Figures

Figures 116–131. Aedeagi, lateral and dorsal views, of Creagrophorus. 116, 117) C. jamaicensis (from Peck 1972). 118, 119) C. bicolor. 120, 121) C. cubensis. 122, 123) C. dominica. 124, 125) C. microdenticulus. 126, 127) C. sanctalucia. 128, 129) C. hispaniolensis. 130, 131) C. unidentatus. Scale line = 0.35 mm, Fig. 116, 117; 0.30 mm, Fig. 118–131.