Isoplastus hispaniolensis 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 : 14-15

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.5192192

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D71E87FC-FFE9-FFD5-FF10-F98CFEF4520D

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Felipe

scientific name

Isoplastus hispaniolensis Peck and Cook
status

sp. nov.

Isoplastus hispaniolensis Peck and Cook View in CoL , new species

Figure 30 View Figures 30–36

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex; total length = 1.5–2.6 mm; greatest width = 1.1–1.9 mm. Yellowish brown to dark reddish brown, shining. Head moderately finely, densely punctate. Antenna with 10 antennomeres, antennal club robust, of 3 antennomeres; antennomere VII thin, about one-half as wide as VIII; apical antennomere distinctly narrower than IX. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse, base broadly rounded and sinuate laterally. Elytral strial punctures coarse, closely spaced; interstrial punctures minute, scattered. Metasternum moderately densely, coarsely punctate. Meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose. Abdominal sternites lack transverse rows of punctures. Aedeagus ( Fig. 30 View Figures 30–36 ) broad, curved and flattened dorsoventrally; acute tips of paired apical appendages inwardly curved. Parameres thin and broad, extending beyond apex of median lobe; each paramere with two apical setae. Males are distinguished by long, dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi, and by a tooth-like process at apex of posterior margin of metafemur.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM.REP; LaVega Prov. / 10km NE Jarabacoa / Hotel Montana, forest / 18.VII–4.VIII. 95, 550m / FIT, S. + J. Peck, 95-30” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (70) with the following label data: same data as holotype (9, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: Racquet Club , 20.VII–4.VIII.95, mixed for., 95-37 (10, SBPC) ; same data except: Racquet Club Rd. , 30.VII.95, forest litter, 95-50 (1, SBPC) ; DOM.REP; LaVega Prov. , PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga, 19.VII– 2.VIII.95, 1020m, trop. evgrn. for., FIT, S. + J. Peck, 95-34 (11, SBPC) ; same data except: 1000m, 95-32 (7, SBPC; 3, FMNH) ; same data except: 1010m, 95-33 (10, SBPC; 3, MCZC) ; same data except: 1100m, 95-36 (10, SBPC; 3, FSCA) ; DOMIN.REP: Prov. LaVega , 12km NE Jarabacoa, 550m, 01–07SEP1988, pine forest, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Phillips & Johnson (2, WIBF) ; DOM.REP: Prov. HatoMayor , Par. Nac. Los Haitises, W. of Sabana de la Mar, Bosque humido, 16APR–01JUL1992, M.A. Ivie, fit (1, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet hispaniolensis refers to the West Indian island of Hispaniola on which this species occurs.

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

WIBF

West Indian Beetle Fauna Project Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Isoplastus

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