Creagrophorus cubensis 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 cubensis Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 120, 121

Diagnostic description. Length 1.3–1.6 mm; greatest width 1.1–1.3 mm. Shining, with faint iridescence; color yellowish brown to dark brown, venter and appendages paler. Punctation fine and sparse. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Pre-apical process of posterior margin of metafemur elongate and apically acute, apical process smaller and triangular. Aedeagus ( Fig. 120, 121 ) evenly, rounded curved dorsoventrally; inverted internal sac with scattered small spines and two dense clusters of large spines apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “ CUBA: Santiago Prov. / Gran Piedra, Met. Radar/ 6–17.XII.95, 1100m / elfin for. FIT/ S. Peck, 95-76” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (10): with same data as holotype (1, SBPC) ; Gran Piedra , Isabelica, 7–17.XII.95, 1100m, elfin forest FITs, S. Peck, 95-84 (8, SBPC) ; Santiago Prov. , Santiago, Jardin Botanico, 5–17.XII.95, 5m, disturb. for. FITs, S. Peck, 95-74 (1, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from Cuba.

Etymology. The epithet cubensis ( Cuba + the Latin suffix –ensis, locality) refers to the occurrence of this species on Cuba.

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.