Zeadolopus lavega 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 : 31

Zeadolopus lavega Peck and Cook , new species.

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Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.3–1.6 mm; greatest width 0.8–1.2 mm. Yellow to yellowish brown; shining, with reticulate microsculpture on pronotum and elytra. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club robust, apical antennomere nearly as wide as antennomere IX. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles roundly obtuse. 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, less densely punctate medially. Mesofemur with posterior margin broadly expanded in both sexes. Metafemur broadly expanded at apex of posterior margin in female; with curved, toothlike 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. 55) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres moderately slender, straight, extending to apex of median lobe, each bearing two apical setae. Inverted internal sac with connected pair of elongate structures evenly narrowing to apex. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: LaVega Prov. / 10km NE Jarabacoa / Racquet Club, 550m, FIT/ 20.VII–4.VIII.95, mixed/ for., S.+ J. Peck, 95-37” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (15) have the following label data: same data as holotype (7, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: Hotel Montana, 18.VII–4.VIII.95, forest, 95-30 (7, SBPC) ; DOMIN. REP.: Prov. LaVega, nr. Buena Vista, Hotel La Montana, 10APR1992, at light, M.A. Ivie, D.S. Sikes & W. Lanier (1, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet lavega (Latin noun in apposition) refers the occurrence of this species in the Dominican Republic Province of LaVega.