Zeadolopus iviei 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 : 30

Zeadolopus iviei Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 53

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.7–2.2 mm; greatest width 1.2–1.6 mm. Dark reddish brown, shining, without microsculpture. Head moderately finely, sparsely punctate. Antennomeres VII-IX darker than funicle and antennomere X; club moderately slender. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed, strial punctures moderately large and moderately spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate with a few scattered large punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, flat, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely punctate laterally, with fine scattered punctures medially. Sexual dimorphism not noted in legs except male pro- and mesotarsi are more densely setose ventrally. Mesofemur with or without a broad toothlike process at apex of posterior margin; mesotibia broad and strongly spinose. Metafemur unmodified; metatibia narrower than mesotibia, weakly spinose. First metatarsomere longer than second. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 53 ) short, broad, with truncate apex; paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, weakly curved, reaching about to apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pr. San Cristobal / 4kmNW Villa Altagracia / 300m, 12APR–06JULY1992 / M.A. & R.O. Ivie colr/ flight intercept trap ” ( WIBF) . Paratypes (7) have the following label data: same data as holotype (3, WIBF; 3, SBPC) ; same data except: 06JULY–24AUG1992, M.A. Ivie & D.S. Sikes (1, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from the type locality on Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet iviei is in recognition of the contributions of Dr. Michael A. Ivie, Montana State University, who provided many of the specimens of West Indian Leiodidae for this study.

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.