Creagrophorus microdenticulus 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 : 60

Creagrophorus microdenticulus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 124, 125

Diagnostic description. Length 1.3–1.8 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.3 mm. Shining, pale to dark reddish brown. Punctation fine and sparse on head and pronotum, larger punctures on elytral Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur with small denticle at apical fourth and large, curved, acute process at apex. Aedeagus ( Fig. 124, 125 ) shallowly, evenly curved dorsoventrally; inverted internal sac with scattered small spines and two dense patches of large spines apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: LaVega Prov. / PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga / 19.VII–2.VIII.95, 1000m / trop. evgrn. for. FIT/ S. & J. Peck, 95-32” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (50): with same data as holotype (20, SBPC; 3, MCZC; 3, FSCA) ; with same data except: 1010m, 95-33 (21, SBPC; 3, FMNH) ;

Additional material examined. DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: LaVega Prov., PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga , 19.VII–2.VIII.95, 1010m, trop. evgrn. for. FIT, S. & J. Peck, 95-33 (27, SBPC) ; with same data except: 1020m, 95-34 (20, SBPC) ; with same data except: 1100m, 95-36 (20, SBPC) ; DOM. REP.: Barahona, 7kmNW Paraiso , 200m, rainforest remnant, 27.XI–4.XII.91, intercept tp., Masner & Peck, 91-341 (2, SBPC) ; DOM. REP.: Prov. Hato Mayor, Par. Nac. Los Haitises, W. of Sabana de la Mar , Bosque Humido , 16.IV–1.VII.1992, M.A. Ivie, FIT (13, WIBF) ; DOM. REP.: Prov. LaVega , 12km NE Jarabacoa, 550m, 01– 07.IX.1988, pine forest, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Philips & Johnson (1, WIBF) ; DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Hato Mayor, Parque Los Haitises , 3 km W Cueva de Arena, 19-04N, 69-29W, 20 m, 7–9.VII.1992, R. Davidson, J. Rawlins, S. Thompson, C. Young, mesic lowland forest (2, CMNH) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet microdenticulus (Latin micro, small; denticulus, tooth) refers to the small toothlike process at the apical fourth of the posterior margin of the metafemur in males of this species.

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.