Creagrophorus dominica 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 : 59

Creagrophorus dominica Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 122, 123

Diagnostic description. Length 1.4–1.8 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.4 mm. Shining, darker specimens with iridescent sheen. Color medium to dark reddish brown; venter, antennae and palpi paler. Punctation moderately coarse and sparse. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur with broad toothlike process medially, angled toward apex; moderately long, acute process apically. Aedeagus ( Fig. 122, 123 ) curved dorsoventrally, depressed before flat apex; inverted internal sac with a few scattered small spines and two dense clusters of large spines apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES: DOMINICA / Springfield Estate , 31.V–16.VI.04/ N15°20.841’ W61°22.000’, 550 m / ridgetop forest above Mt. Joy, FIT/ S. & J. Peck, 04-90” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (19): with same data as holotype (7, SBPC) ; with same data except: 400 m, Mt. Joy House , wet montane for. FIT, 04-89 (6, SBPC) ; Springfield Estate , 30.V–16.VI.04, N15°20.796’ W61°22.142’, mature 2 nd forest, 4FITs, 330–360 m, S. & J. Peck, 04-86 (1, SBPC) ; Middleham Falls trail, Cochrane, N15°20.922’ W61°20.747’, 650 m, forest FITs, 31.V–11.VI.04, S. & J. Peck, 04-93 (5, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Dominica.

Etymology. The epithet dominica , Latin noun in apposition, refers to the occurrence of this species on the Lesser Antilles island of Dominica.

Figures

Figures 116–131. Aedeagi, lateral and dorsal views, of Creagrophorus. 116, 117) C. jamaicensis (from Peck 1972). 118, 119) C. bicolor. 120, 121) C. cubensis. 122, 123) C. dominica. 124, 125) C. microdenticulus. 126, 127) C. sanctalucia. 128, 129) C. hispaniolensis. 130, 131) C. unidentatus. Scale line = 0.35 mm, Fig. 116, 117; 0.30 mm, Fig. 118–131.