Zeadolopus 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 : 29

Zeadolopus hispaniolensis Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 52

Diagnostic description. Body moderately convex. Length 1.6–2.7 mm; greatest width 1.2–2.1 mm. Dark reddish brown to black, moderately shining, with reticulate microsculpture. Head punctation moderately coarse, dense. Antennal club and funicle paler, club not robust in shape. Eyes large. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed, strial punctures large and closely spaced; interstriae finely punctate, punctures dense anteriorly. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, smooth, not medially carinate. Metasternum with moderately large, dense punctures laterally, finely punctate medially. Femora and tibiae not sexually dimorphic. Mesofemur unmodified; mesotibia slightly widened to apex, strongly spinose on outer margin. Metafemur unmodified, posterior margin weakly concave; metatibia weakly widened to apex, outer margin weakly spinose. Male pro- and mesotarsi slightly more densely setose ventrally. Metatarsomere 1 about as long as metatarsomeres 2–4 combined. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 52 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, straight, extending beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with a pair of slender rod-like structures that are joined in apical half and surrounded by a cone-shaped structure medially. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: LaVega Prov. / PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga / 19.VII–2.VIII.95, 1100m / trop.evgrn. for., FIT/ S. + J. Peck, 95-36” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (20) have the following label data: same data as holotype (4, SBPC) ; same data except: 1010m, 95-33 (6, SBPC) ; same data except: 1000m, 95-32 (1, SBPC) ; same data except: 1020m, 95-34 (2, SBPC) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, Pedernales, 23.5 km N. Cabo Rojo, 18-06N, 71-38W, 540 m, 13–19 July 1990, L. Masner, J. Rawlins, C. Young, deciduous forest, intercept trap (4, CMNH) ; same data except: 26 km N. Cabo Rojo, 13–20 July 1990, wet deciduous forest (2, CMNH) ; REP. DOM., Pedernales Prov., Sierra Baoruco, 31 km N. Cabo Rojo, 2500’, XII-29-1986, Doyen & Santiago, broad leaf mesophyll association, ex flight trap (1, EMEC) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet hispaniolensis (Hispaniola + the Latin suffix – ensis, locality) refers to the occurrence of this species on Hispaniola.

Figures

Figures 50–58. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 50) Z. exiguus. 51) Z. hatomayor. 52) Z. hispaniolensis. 53) Z. iviei. 54) Z. jarabacoa. 55) Z. lavega. 56) Z. minisculus. 57) Z. nanus. 58) Z. longipes. Scale line = 0.20 mm, Fig. 50, 57; 0.30 mm, Fig. 51–56; 0.40 mm, Fig. 58.