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.
Peck, Stewart B.
Cook, Joyce
Insecta Mundi
2014
2014-10-31
2014
397
1
76
65RB2
Peck and Cook
Peck and Cook
2014
[192,661,963,987]
Insecta
Leiodidae
Aglyptinus
Animalia
Coleoptera
55
54
Arthropoda
species
minutus
sp. nov.
Figures 78, 79 Diagnostic description. Length 1.0– 1.2 mm; greatest width 0.7–0.9 mm. Shining; color reddish brown to nearly black; pronotal margins, venter, elytral epipleura and appendages paler. Head, pronotum and elytra minutely, sparsely punctate. Antennae long, reaching beyond pronotal base. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes reduced to a few facets. Wings greatly reduced. Metasternum minutely, sparsely punctate medially; with fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose; male legs otherwise unmodified. Aedeagus ( Fig. 78, 79) short, broad, weakly arched dorsoventrally, rounded apically. Parameres lacking.
Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: Granma/ Parque Nacional Pico Turquino/ Aguada de Joachin/ 1370m, 20.015 -76.840, 3.II.2012/ R. Anderson, dry mixed forest litter/ 2012-023” ( SBPC). Paratypes(63): with same data as holotype (5, SBPC); with same data except: Cerro Joachin peak, 1660m, 20.013 -76.834, wet cloud forest litter, 2012-022 (49, SBPC; 3, FSCA; 3, MCZC; 3, FMNH). Additional material examined. CUBA: Santiago de Cuba: Parque Nacional Gran Piedra, near La Isabellica, 1075m, 20.003 -75.613, 27.I.2012, R. Anderson, wet pluviselva litter, 2012-008 (6, SBPC); same data except: 1115m, 20.007 -75.619, 29.I.2012, 2012-013 (2, SBPC); same data except: near Museo Isabelica, 2012-003 (12, SBPC); Cuba: Santiago Prov., Gran Piedra, Met. Radar, 6.XII.1995, 1100m, elfin forest litter, S. Peck, 95-75 (2, SBPC); same data except: Isabelica, 95-79 (1, SBPC); Cuba: Alto de Menmo?, Pico Caracas, 5.III.2013, suelo, F. Cala(11, SBPC); Cuba: Pico Caracas, 6.III.2013, suelo, F. Cala, A. Deler-H. (9, SBPC).
Distribution. Known only from Cuba.
Etymology. The epithet minutus(Latin, small) refers to the size of this species.
2012-02-03
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1370
20.015
Aguada de Joachin
76
-76.84
Parque Nacional Pico Turquino
55
54
1
Granma
holotype
[429,1076,1379,1404]
2012-02-03
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1370
20.015
Aguada de Joachin
76
-76.84
Parque Nacional Pico Turquino
55
54
1
Granma
paratype
2012-02-03
SBPC, MCZC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1660
20.013
Aguada de Joachin
76
-76.834
Parque Nacional Pico Turquino
55
54
1
Granma
paratype
2012-01-27
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1075
20.003
La Isabellica
76
-75.613
Parque Nacional Gran Piedra
55
54
1
Santiago de Cuba
2012-01-29
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1115
20.007
La Isabellica
76
-75.619
Parque Nacional Gran Piedra
55
54
1
Santiago de Cuba
2012-01-29
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1115
20.007
La Isabellica
76
-75.619
Parque Nacional Gran Piedra
55
54
1
Santiago de Cuba
1995-12-06
SBPC
S. Peck
Cuba
Cuba
1100
Gran Piedra
Santiago Prov.
55
54
1
[587,1139,1635,1659]
1995-12-06
SBPC
S. Peck
Cuba
Cuba
1100
Gran Piedra
Santiago Prov.
55
54
1
2013-03-05
SBPC
F. Cala
Cuba
Cuba
Pico Caracas
Alto de Menmo
55
54
1
2013-03-06
SBPC
F. Cala
Cuba
Pico Caracas
Cuba
55
54
1