Aglyptus dimorphicus, Peck, 1972: 52

Peck, Stewart B., Gnaspini, Pedro & Newton, Alfred F., 2020, Updated catalog and generic keys of the Leiodidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) of the Neotropical region (“ Latin America ”: Mexico, the West Indies, and Central and South America), Zootaxa 4741 (1), pp. 1-114 : 83

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4741.1.1

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2F901615-D948-4C68-81E9-75282F594BAF

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3797227

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scientific name

Aglyptus dimorphicus
status

 

A. dimorphicus Peck, 1972: 52,

1978: 245; Peck & Cook, 2014: 43.

Holotype male in MCZC (nº 32002).

Type locality: Windsor Great Cave, 10 mi S Falmouth, Windsor, Trelawney Parish, Jamaica.

Distribution: Jamaica: Clarendon, Manchester, Portland, St. Andrew, St. Ann, St. Catherine, St. Elizabeth, St. Mary, St. Thomas, and Trelawny Parishes. Biology: On bat guano in caves and widespread in forests; with dimorphic wings (short wings are more frequent in cave and higher elevation forest populations).

Peck, S. B. (1972) Leiodinae and Catopinae (Coleoptera; Leiodidae) from Jamaica and Puerto Rico. Psyche, Cambridge, 79, 49 - 57. https: // doi. org / 10.1155 / 1972 / 15989

Peck, S. B. (1978) New records and species of Leiodinae and Catopinae (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Jamaica and Puerto Rico, with a discussion of wing dimorphism. Psyche, Cambridge, 83, 243 - 254. https: // doi. org / 10.1155 / 1977 / 92540

Peck, S. B. & Cook, J. (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, 0397, 1 - 76.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Leiodidae

SubFamily

Coloninae

Tribe

Scotocryptini

Genus

Aglyptus