Parvocyrtusa 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 : 38

Parvocyrtusa Peck and Cook , new genus

Type species: Parvocyrtusa hispaniolensis Peck and Cook , here designated.

Distribution. Endemic to Hispaniola and Puerto Rico in the Greater Antilles.

Biology. Unknown, probably feeding on soft fungi in moist forested habitats.

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Antenna of 10 antennomeres with 4-antennomere club. Mandibles prominent; right mandible toothed. Ventral side of head with paired antennal grooves. Mesosternum vertical between coxae, vertical surface not longitudinally carinate. Tarsal formula 5-5- 4 in both sexes. Mesotibia robust, spinose, conspicuously broader than slender metatibia; metatibia lacking large spines except at apex. Without large punctures on metasternum and/or abdominal sternites. Sternite 3 about as long as 4 + 5. Males are distinguished by weakly expanded pro- and mesotarsi bearing spatulate setae, absence of process on inner apical margin of mesotibia, and unmodified metafemur.

Distribution. Known only from the islands of Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rican material consists of two females (WIBF) representing an undescribed species.

Etymology. The epithet Parvocyrtusa is from the Latin parvo-, small; - cyrtusa, sharing antennal characters with the genus Cyrtusa . Gender: feminine.