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
4NZQ2
Peck and Cook
Peck and Cook
2014
[192,764,1507,1531]
Insecta
Leiodidae
Pseudolionothus
Animalia
Coleoptera
40
39
Arthropoda
species
andersoni
sp. nov.
Figures 33, 34 Diagnostic description. Total length = 1.42–1.54 mm; greatest width = 0.94–1.10 mm. Dark reddish brown, shining. Head moderately coarsely, irregularly punctate. Antennal club moderately robust; antennomere VII variable in width, always distinctly narrower than IX and X; antennomere VIII thin, disc-like, about one-half width of IX and X; antennomere XI narrower than IX and X. Left mandible with small tooth on apical half, right mandible with large triangular tooth at middle. Pronotum with moderately fine, irregularly spaced punctures; posterior angles rounded, base broadly rounded. Elytra coarsely punctate, strial rows usually discernible only posteriorly. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 33, 34) broad, gradually flattening toward apex; dorsal margin sinuate in lateral view; paired apical appendages with acute apices, extending well beyond apex of median lobe. Parameres slender, nearly reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae.
Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: Guantanamo/ El Yunque, Finca Las Delicia/ 170m, 20.314 –74.573, 31.I.2012/ R. Anderson, wet rainforest litter / 2012-016” ( SBPC). Paratypes(7) with the following label data: same data as holotype (1, SBPC); CUBA: Holguin, Mayari/ P. N. Mensura Piloto/ 20.48123 - 75.80952, 716m/ 10.V.2013, R. Anderson/ 2013-003, dry pluviselva litter (2, SBPC); CUBA: Cienfuegos/ Mayari, 1 kmE / 21.97114 – 80.12172, 866m/ 18.V.2013, R. Anderson/ 2013-018, karst forest litter (2, SBPC); CUBA: Cienfuegos/ P.N. Pico San Juan, road / 21.98812 – 80.14632, 1086m/ 19.V.2013, R. Anderson/ 2013-022, elfin forest litter (1, SBPC); CUBA: Cienfuegos/ Rio Cabagan/ 21.93123 -80.08461, 651m/ 20.V.2013, R. Anderson/ 2013-026, gallery forest litter (1, SBPC).
Distribution. Known only from Cuba.
Etymology. This species, andersoni, is named for Dr. Robert Anderson, Canadian Museum of Nature, who collected all of the known specimens.
2012-01-31
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
170
20.314
Finca Las Delicia
76
-74.573
El Yunque
41
40
1
Guantanamo
holotype
[192,1121,259,284]
2012-01-31
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
170
20.314
Finca Las Delicia
76
-74.573
El Yunque
41
40
1
Guantanamo
paratype
2013-05-10
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
716
20.48123
Mensura Piloto
1
-75.80952
Mayari
41
40
1
Holguin
paratype
2013-05-18
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
866
21.97114
Mayari
1
-80.12172
41
40
1
Cienfuegos
paratype
2013-05-19
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
1086
21.98812
Pico San Juan
1
-80.14632
41
40
1
Cienfuegos
paratype
2013-05-20
SBPC
R. Anderson
Cuba
651
21.93123
Rio Cabagan
1
-80.08461
41
40
1
Cienfuegos
paratype