Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925

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 : 19

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.5192198

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D71E87FC-FFF2-FFD1-FF10-FE6CFAED546D

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Felipe

scientific name

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925
status

 

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925 View in CoL

Figure 67 View Figures 65–69

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925: 9 View in CoL ; Švec 1997: 216 (ex Cyrtusa View in CoL ). Holotype male in BMNH, not seen. Type locality: Grenada.

Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.3 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.0 mm. Reddish brown, shining, microsculpture absent. Head punctures variable in size and density. Antennal club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum flat, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, irregularly punctate laterally; medial punctures smaller. Male mesofemur with toothlike median and apical expansions of posterior margin. Male metafemur with acute toothlike expansion of apex of posterior margin. Mesotibia broad and spinose in both sexes; metatibia narrower, spinose. Male with sparse pale setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 67 View Figures 65–69 ) short and broad, with paired apices each bearing a toothlike lateral process. Parameres narrow, short, not reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate median tubelike structure. Spermatheca of two connected oblong structures.

Distribution. Known only from the islands of Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia. Previously known only from “ Grenada ” with no additional locality data.

New records. Grenada. Grand Etang Forest Reserve , N12°04.162’ W61°42.162’, 10–28.VIII. 10, 400 m, rain forest FIT, S. Peck, 10-63 (15, SBPC) GoogleMaps ; Grand Etang Forest Reserve , N12°04.846’ W61°42.333’, 9– 28.VIII. 10, 360 m, rain forest FIT, S. Peck, 10-61 1, SBPC). St. Vincent. Hermitage Forest E of Spring Village, N13°14.86’ W61°12.77’, 15–27.VIII.06, forest FIT, 348 m, S. & J. Peck, 06-102B (1, SBPC) GoogleMaps ; same data except 16–27.VIII.06, 06-103B (5, SBPC) GoogleMaps ; same locality, 15–27.VIII.06, forest edge malaise, 340 m, 06-104A (1, SBPC) GoogleMaps ; same locality, 23-27.VIII.06, forest edge FIT, 340 m, 06-104B (1, SBPC). ST. LUCIA. Bordelais trap site, 13.9689°N 60.8859°W, 25–29.VI.2009, FIT, M.L. Gimmel & E.A. Ivie (4, WIBF) GoogleMaps .

WIBF

West Indian Beetle Fauna Project Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Zeadolopus

Loc

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925

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

Zeadolopus conicitarsis (Champion) 1925: 9

Svec, Z. 1997: 216
1997
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