Creagrophorus bicolor 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 : 58-59

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5184089

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:84BA7373-8A5C-4E98-B132-8DDC2607CD48

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5192327

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D71E87FC-FFDD-FFF9-FF10-FA6CFEF6518D

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Creagrophorus bicolor Peck and Cook
status

sp. nov.

Creagrophorus bicolor Peck and Cook View in CoL , new species

Figures 118, 119 View Figures 116–131

Diagnostic description. Length 1.3–1.5 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.1 mm. Shining; head and pronotum dark brown; elytra, venter and appendages yellowish. Punctation moderately fine and sparse. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur medially with broad process angled toward apex; moderately long, acute process apically. Aedeagus ( Fig. 118, 119 View Figures 116–131 ) evenly, shallowly curved dorsoventrally; inverted internal sac with scattered small spines and a few larger spines apically.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “LES[SER] ANT[ILLES]: MARTINIQUE / 4 km SW Le Marin, Morne Aca / N14°27.8 W60°53.9, 260 m / 13–28.VII.2012, Humid forest / Hilltop clearing FIT, S. Peck, 12-55” ( SBPC) GoogleMaps . Paratypes (21): with same data as holotype (16, SBPC) GoogleMaps ; MARTINIQUE: 4 km N Ste-Luce, Foret Montravail , 300 m, N14°29.9, W60°55.7, 11–28.VII.2012, humid forest FIT, S. Peck, 12-53 (5, SBPC) GoogleMaps .

Distribution. Known only from Martinique.

Etymology. The epithet bicolor (Latin bi -, two; color, color) refers to the contrasting dorsal coloration of this species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Creagrophorus

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