Zeadolopus paulus 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 : 36

Zeadolopus paulus Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 60

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.4–1.8 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.3 mm. Yellowish to dark reddish brown, shining, some individuals with reticulate microsculpture. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club moderately robust; apical antennomere nearly as wide as antennomere IX. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate with a few scattered larger punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave; lateral margins of concavity forming carinae that converge at base. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; moderately finely, densely punctate medially. Mesofemur robust and broadly expanded at apex of posterior margin in both sexes. Metafemur strongly robust; broadly expanded at apex of posterior margin in female; with curved, tooth-like expansion in male. In both sexes, meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 60 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres moderately robust, weakly curved, extending slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with 2 parallel rod-like structures in basal half that join and narrow in apical half. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pedernales/ 28kmN Cabo Rojo, 760m / evergreen dry forest/ 29.XI–3.XII.91, intercept / trap, Masner & Peck, 91-349” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (30) have the following label data: same data as holotype (7, SBPC) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Barahona, 7kmNW Paraiso , 200m, rainforest remnant, 27.XI–4.XII.91, intercept tp., Masner & Peck, 91-341 (1, SBPC) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pedernales, 23.5kmN Cabo Rojo , 18-06N, 71-38W, 540m, 13–19 July 1990, L. Masner, J. Rawlins, C. Young, deciduous forest, intercept trap (3, CMNH) ; same data as previous except: 26kmN Cabo Rojo , 730m, 31 July 1990, J. Rawlins, C.W. Young, S. Thompson (1, CMNH) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Barahona, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine , 26.VI–7.VII.1992, Woodruff & Skelley, flight trap (6, FSCA) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prov. Pedernales, Las Abejas , 1225m, 18°09’03”N, 71°37’48”W, 28JUL–3AUG1999, G.O. Dominici, FIT (2, WIBF; 2, SBPC) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prov. Pedernales, ca. 35kmN Cabo Rojo, 1250m ,, Las Abejas , 26AUG–09SEP1988, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Philips & Johnson (2, SBPC; 1, WIBF) ; same data as previous except: 24kmN Cabo Rojo , 610m, 20AUG–9SEP1988 (3, WIBF) ; same data as previous except: 20–25AUG1988, wet forest (2, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet paulus (Latin, little) refers to the small size of this species.

Figures

Figures 59–64. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 59) Z. oviedoensis. 60) Z. paulus. 61) Z. pedernales. 62) Z. puertoricensis (from Peck 1977). 63) Z. antiguensis. 64) Z. parvantilliensis. Scale line = 0.30 mm.