Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978

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 : 20

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5192204

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D71E87FC-FFF3-FFD0-FF10-FD8CFBB1544D

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Felipe

scientific name

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978
status

 

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978 View in CoL

Figure 47 View Figures 44–49

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978: 252 View in CoL ; Newton 1983: 174 (ex Apheloplastus View in CoL ). Type male in CNCI, seen. Type locality: Morces Gap , St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica .

Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 0.9 mm; greatest width 0.7 mm. Uniformly medium brown in color, shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust, strongly setose. Eye reduced, about twice as long as wide. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides roundly angled at middle; posterior angles broadly, roundly obtuse. Elytra with minute, scattered setose punctures; striae absent. Flight wings reduced to tiny paddle-shaped rudiments (Peck 1977). Metasternum without coarse punctures. Male meso- and metafemur with posterior margin expanded, broadly rounded at apex, lacking tooth-like processes. Meso- and metatibia broad and spinose. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 47 View Figures 44–49 ) elongate, narrow, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, short, not reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate median rodlike structure. Female unknown.

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1978). Jamaica. St. Andrew Parish. Morces Gap, 5000 ft. [1525m].

New records. None.

Remarks. The species is known only from leaf litter, at 1525m elevation.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Zeadolopus

Loc

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce 2014
2014
Loc

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978: 252

Newton, A. F., Jr. 1983: 174
1983
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