Pinodytes shoshone Peck & Cook 2011, new species
Creators: name: Peck, Stewart B.
name: Cook, Joyce
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2011
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Leiodidae
Pinodytes
Pinodytes shoshone

description: Pinodytes shoshone Peck & Cook, new species   
(Figs. 42, 359, 376–383)  
 Type material. Holotype: male (WFBM). UNITED STATES. Idaho: Shoshone Co.: Hobo Cedar Grove, P.F., VIII-23/ X-18-1985, F.W. Merickel. Paratypes ( 11): Same locality as holotype, 5.VI.1982, F.W. Merickel, cedar leaf litter Ber., 5 (WFBM); Latah Co.: 10miNE Harvard, 29.X.1985, F.W. Merickel, B.F., 6 (WFBM).   
 Material examined. We have examined 12 specimens.   
 Distribution. Specimens (Fig. 359) are known only from Latah and Shoshone counties, northern Idaho.   
 Diagnostic description. Total length 2.18–2.36 mm.; greatest width 0.98–1.08 mm. Reddish brown; elongateoval in shape (Fig. 42). Head. Finely, sparsely punctate, shining, with substriate microsculpture. Antenna (Fig. 376) with antennomere 2 slightly longer than 3; antennomere 5 slightly larger than 4 and 6; antennomere 7 clearly larger than 8; antennomeres 9 and 10 lack visible sensory vesicles. Pronotum. With fine punctures separated by 2– 4 diameters and a few scattered larger punctures, shining, with reticulate microsculpture. Widest near base; sides nearly parallel in basal one-half, weakly converging in apical one-half; apical margin emarginate, basal margin nearly straight; apical angles rounded, basal angles nearly right-angled. Elytra. Punctures larger than on pronotum, in sublinear rows in basal one-half, smaller and more irregular apically; punctures joined transversely by fine strioles. Slightly wider than pronotum, widest at about basal one-third, sides roundly converging to apex. Legs. Protibia (Fig. 377) widened apically; apex spinose; apical one-half of outer margin with a few spines, apical onehalf of inner margin finely spinose. Mesotibia (Fig. 378) narrow, nearly straight; apex, outer margin and apical onehalf of inner margin strongly spinose. Metatibia (Fig. 379) elongate, narrow, straight; apex spinose, apical one-half with scattered small spines. Metafemur (Fig. 379) elongate, narrow. Male protarsomeres (Fig. 377) not expanded; protarsomere 1 about as long as 2 and 3 combined; with elongate setae laterally and a double row of thin, colorless, transverse phanerae ventrally. Mesotarsomeres without phanerae. Venter. Mesoventrite (Fig. 383) carinate; longitudinal carina shallowly emarginate; large excavation behind transverse carina. Male genitalia. Median lobe of aedeagus (Figs. 380, 381) elongate, broad, flattened before apex; strongly dorsoventrally curved near middle; apex triangular, rounded. Everted internal sac (Fig. 380) with broad, flattened spines of various sizes. Parameres (Figs. 380, 381) slender, apices weakly expanded; not reaching apex of median lobe; each bearing two apical setae. Spermatheca. Elongate (Fig. 382), cylindrical, strongly curved before duct.   
 Etymology. The name shoshone, a noun in apposition, refers to the occurrence of this species in Shoshone Co., Idaho.
description: Published as part of Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, pp. 1-118 in Zootaxa 3077 (1) on pages 48-49, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5243536