Aglyptinus longipalpus 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 : 52

Aglyptinus longipalpus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 98, 99

Diagnostic description. Length 1.3–1.5 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.0 mm. Shining; color yellowish to dark reddish brown; pronotal margins, labrum and palps paler. Head, pronotum and elytra finely, sparsely punctate. Antennae elongate, extend beyond pronotal base. Maxillary palps elongate, penultimate palpomere broadly expanded. Eyes reduced to a few facets. Wings strongly reduced. Metasternum with minute scattered punctures medially, fine lines of microsculpture laterally. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Male legs otherwise unmodified. Aedeagus ( Fig. 98, 99) short, dorsoventrally angulate near base; fairly abruptly narrowing and flattening at apex. Parameres absent.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: INDEPENDENCIA / 32km NW La Descubierta / sabanaReal, 1800 m, cloud/ forest moss & litter, 26.XI.1991 / S. & J. Peck, 91-334” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (17): with same data as holotype (16, SBPC) ; same data except: 30km NW La Descubierta , 1646 m, cloud forest carrion, 25.XI.1991, 91-331 (1, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet longipalpus (Latin, long palp) refers to the elongate maxillary palps of this species.