Zeadolopus paulus Peck and Cook 2014, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Zeadolopus
Zeadolopus paulus

description: Zeadolopus paulus Peck and Cook, new species   
Figure 60  
 Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.4–1.8 mm; greatest width 1.0– 1.3 mm. Yellowish to dark reddish brown, shining, some individuals with reticulate microsculpture. Head punctation moderately coarse and dense. Antennal club moderately robust; apical antennomere nearly as wide as antennomere IX. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures coarse and closely spaced; interstriae minutely, sparsely punctate with a few scattered larger punctures. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, concave; lateral margins of concavity forming carinae that converge at base. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; moderately finely, densely punctate medially. Mesofemur robust and broadly expanded at apex of posterior margin in both sexes. Metafemur strongly robust; broadly expanded at apex of posterior margin in female; with curved, tooth-like expansion in male. In both sexes, meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 60) elongate, broad, with paired apices inwardly curved. Parameres moderately robust, weakly curved, extending slightly beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with 2 parallel rod-like structures in basal half that join and narrow in apical half. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.   
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: Pedernales/ 28kmN Cabo Rojo, 760m / evergreen dry forest/ 29.XI–3.XII.91, intercept / trap, Masner & Peck, 91-349” (SBPC). Paratypes (30) have the following label data: same data as holotype (7, SBPC); DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Barahona, 7kmNW Paraiso, 200m, rainforest remnant, 27.XI–4.XII.91, intercept tp., Masner & Peck, 91-341 (1, SBPC); DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Pedernales, 23.5kmN Cabo Rojo, 18-06N, 71-38W, 540m, 13–19 July 1990, L. Masner, J. Rawlins, C. Young, deciduous forest, intercept trap (3, CMNH); same data as previous except: 26kmN Cabo Rojo, 730m, 31 July 1990, J. Rawlins, C.W. Young, S. Thompson (1, CMNH); DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Barahona, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine, 26.VI–7.VII.1992, Woodruff & Skelley, flight trap (6, FSCA); DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prov. Pedernales, Las Abejas, 1225m, 18°09’03”N, 71°37’48”W, 28JUL–3AUG1999, G.O. Dominici, FIT (2, WIBF; 2, SBPC); DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Prov. Pedernales, ca. 35kmN Cabo Rojo, 1250m,, Las Abejas, 26AUG–09SEP1988, flight intercept trap, M. Ivie, Philips & Johnson (2, SBPC; 1, WIBF); same data as previous except: 24kmN Cabo Rojo, 610m, 20AUG–9SEP1988 (3, WIBF); same data as previous except: 20–25AUG1988, wet forest (2, WIBF).   
 Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.   
 Etymology. The epithet paulus (Latin, little) refers to the small size of this species.
description: Published as part of 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., pp. 1-76 in Insecta Mundi 2014 (397) on page 36, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089