Zeadolopus jarabacoa 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 : 30-31

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.5192238

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D71E87FC-FFF9-FFE5-FF10-FB8CFA2651AD

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scientific name

Zeadolopus jarabacoa Peck and Cook
status

sp. nov.

Zeadolopus jarabacoa Peck and Cook View in CoL , new species

Figure 54 View Figures 50–58

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.2–1.4 mm; greatest width 0.8–1.0 mm. Yellowish brown to dark reddish brown, shining, with reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennae pale, club robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse and dense; interstriae finely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave; lateral margins of concavity forming carinae joining median carina of horizontal face of mesosternum. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate throughout. Male with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin of metafemur; metafemur unmodified in female. In both sexes, mesotibia broad and spinose, metatibia moderately broad and spinose. Male usually with more dense setae on ventral surface of pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 54 View Figures 50–58 ) elongate, broad; paired apices inwardly curved at apex, with dorsal lobe. Parameres slender, straight, extending slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac of aedeagus with elongate median flagellum-like structure; before apex, inverted “V”-shaped structure with two crossbars. Spermatheca of 2 connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: LaVega Prov. / 10km NE Jarabacoa / Hotel Montana, forest/ 18.VII–4.VIII. 95, 550m / FIT, S.+ J. Peck, 95-30” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (13) have the following label data: same data as holotype (6, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: Racquet Club , 20.VII–4.VIII.95, mixed for., 95-37 (5, SBPC) ; DOM. REP.: LaVega Prov. , PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga, 19.VII–2.VIII.95, 1000m, trop. evgrn. for., FIT, S.+ J. Peck, 95-32 (1, SBPC). DOMINICAN REP.: Punta Cana, rural, 11–19NOV2005, L. Masner, Malaise trap (1, WIBF) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet jarabacoa (Latin noun in apposition) refers to the type locality of this species.

WIBF

West Indian Beetle Fauna Project Collection

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

Genus

Zeadolopus

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