Zeadolopus caborojo 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 : 24-25

Zeadolopus caborojo Peck and Cook , new species

Figure 49

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.9–2.6 mm; greatest width 1.4–2.0 mm. Dark reddish brown with moderate to strong reticulate microsculpture on head, pronotum and elytra. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club darker than funicle, moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae not impressed, strial punctures moderately large and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate with a few scattered large punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave, not medially carinate. Metasternum with coarse punctures laterally, finer punctures medially. Male protarsi with dense setae ventrally. Male mesofemur weakly produced at anterior third and apex of posterior margin. Male metafemur with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin. Mesotibia and metatibia broad and strongly spinose. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 49 ) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved and down-turned. Parameres slender, weakly curved, reaching about to apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate, median rodlike structure and apical inverted V-shaped sclerite. Female unknown.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pedernales / 28 kmN CaboRojo , 760m / evergreen dry forest/ 29.XI–3.XII.91, intercept / trap, Masner & Peck, 91-349” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (3) have the following label data: same data as holotype (1, SBPC) ; same data as holotype except: 565m, intercept, 91-347 (1, SBPC) ; Dominican Republic: Pedernales, 26 km N Cabo Rojo , 18-06N, 71- 38W. 730 m. 20 July 1990, C.W. Young, J.E. Rawlins, S. Thompson (1, CMNH) .

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet caborojo , Latin noun in apposition, refers to the type locality of this species.

Figures

Figures 44–49. Aedeagi, dorsal view, of Zeadolopus. 44) Z. bicolor. 45) Z. carinatus. 46) Z. jamaicensis (from Peck 1977). 47) Z. microps (from Peck 1977). 48) Z. acinaces. 49) Z. caborojo. Scale line = 0.30 mm.