Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978

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 : 20

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978

Figure 47

Zeadolopus microps (Peck) 1978: 252 ; Newton 1983: 174 (ex Apheloplastus ). Type male in CNCI, seen. Type locality: Morces Gap , St. Andrew Parish, Jamaica .

Diagnosis. Body strongly convex. Length 0.9 mm; greatest width 0.7 mm. Uniformly medium brown in color, shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust, strongly setose. Eye reduced, about twice as long as wide. Pronotum minutely, sparsely punctate; sides roundly angled at middle; posterior angles broadly, roundly obtuse. Elytra with minute, scattered setose punctures; striae absent. Flight wings reduced to tiny paddle-shaped rudiments (Peck 1977). Metasternum without coarse punctures. Male meso- and metafemur with posterior margin expanded, broadly rounded at apex, lacking tooth-like processes. Meso- and metatibia broad and spinose. Median lobe of aedeagus ( Fig. 47 ) elongate, narrow, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres slender, short, not reaching apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate median rodlike structure. Female unknown.

Distribution. Known only from Jamaica. Previously known localities, from Peck (1978). Jamaica. St. Andrew Parish. Morces Gap, 5000 ft. [1525m].

New records. None.

Remarks. The species is known only from leaf litter, at 1525m elevation.

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.