Aglyptinus jamaicensis Peck 1972

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 : 44

Aglyptinus jamaicensis Peck 1972

Figures 84, 85

Aglyptinus jamaicensis Peck 1972: 53 ; 1978: 245. Holotype male in MCZC, seen. Type locality: 2.5 mi S Moneague, St. Ann Parish, Jamaica.

Diagnosis. Length 1.1–1.6 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.3 mm. Shining; color dark reddish brown; appendages and elytral epipleura paler. Head, pronotum and elytra minutely, sparsely punctate. Antenna reaching base of pronotum. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes of moderate size. Wings fully developed. Metasternum with fine lines of microsculpture, transverse medially and diagonal laterally. Aedeagus ( Fig. 84, 85 ) short and broad; in lateral view, weakly angled at middle, evenly narrowed to apex; in dorsal view, widened before apex. Parameres angled before apex.

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1972, 1977). Jamaica. St. Andrew Parish. Hardwar Gap. St. Ann Parish. 2.5 mi S Moneague. St. Thomas Parish. Corn Puss Gap.

New records. None.

Remarks. The species remains scarce and is known from moist forests in association with fleshy fungi, from 610 to 1220 m elevation.

Figures

Figures 70–91. Aedeagi, lateral and dorsal apical views, of Aglyptinus. 70, 71) A. bahamensis. 72, 73) A. biseriatus. 74, 75) A. capitaneus. 76, 77) A. fortipunctatus. 78, 79) A. minutus. 80, 81) A. sinuatus. 82, 83) A. dimorphicus (from Peck 1972). 84, 85) A. jamaicensis (from Peck 1972). 86, 87) A. hemipterus. 88, 89) A. maculus. 90, 91) A. parvoculus. Scale line = 0.30 mm, Fig. 70–73, 76–85, 88, 89; 0.35 mm, Fig. 74, 75, 90, 91; 0.45 mm, Fig. 86, 87.