Creagrophorus unidentatus 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 : 61

Creagrophorus unidentatus Peck and Cook , new species

Figures 130, 131

Diagnostic description. Length 1.1–1.6 mm; greatest width 0.9–1.2 mm. Shining; dark reddish brown to nearly black, appendages paler. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate. Eyes large. Wings fully developed. Posterior margin of male metafemur with single large toothlike process at apex, no process on mesofemur. Aedeagus ( Fig. 130, 131 ) strongly curved dorsoventrally, dorsal margin depressed before apex; inverted internal sac with scattered small spines and two apical clusters of larger spines.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “WEST INDIES: St. Vincent / Hermitage Forest , E of Spring / Village, N13°14.86’ W61°12.77’ / 16–27.VIII.06, forest edge malaise/ 340 m, S. & J. Peck, 06-104A” ( SBPC) . Paratypes (14): with same data as holotype (1, SBPC) ; same data except: 23- 27.VIII.06, forest edge FIT, 06-104B (2, SBPC) ; same data except: 15–27.VIII.06, 348m, 06-102B (3, SBPC) ; same data except: clearing malaise trap, 06-101A (1, SBPC) ; same data except: clearing FIT trap, 06-101B (1, SBPC) ; same data except: 16-27.VIII.06, forest FIT trap, 06-103B (1, SBPC) ; Grenada: Grand Etang Forest Reserve , N12°04.162’ W61°42.162’, 10–28.VIII. 10, 400 m, rain forest FIT, S. Peck, 10-63 (5, SBPC) .

Distribution. Known only from the islands of St. Vincent and Grenada.

Etymology. The epithet unidentatus (Latin uni, one; dentatus, toothed) refers to the single toothlike process on the posterior margin of the male metafemur 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.