Aglyptinus grandis 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
Aglyptinus
Aglyptinus grandis

description: Aglyptinus grandis Peck and Cook, new species   
Figures 96, 97  
 Diagnostic description. Length 1.9–2.3 mm; greatest width 1.5–1.8 mm. Shining; color reddish brown; pronotal margins, labrum, palps, antennae and tarsi usually paler. Head, pronotum and elytra moderately finely, sparsely punctate. Antennae long, reaching pronotal base. Maxillary palps unmodified. Eyes of moderate size. Wings fully developed. Metasternum medially and laterally with fine lines of microsculpture. Male protarsi and mesotarsi densely setose. Major male mesofemur broader than metafemur; metatibia elongate; inner metatibial spine elongate, curved, sinuate apically. Aedeagus (Fig. 96, 97) elongate, slender, strongly curved dorsoventrally, sinuate before acute apex. Parameres broad basally, narrow apically.   
 Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: LA VEGA PROV. / PN. A. Bermudez / 4km SW Cienaga, 1200 m / forest litter, 21.VII.1995 / S. & J. Peck, 95-42” (SBPC). Paratypes (49) with the following label data: with same data as holotype (15, SBPC); DOM. REP.: La Vega Prov., 10 km NE Jarabacoa, Hotel Montana, forest FIT, 18.VII–4.VIII. 1995, 550 m, S. & J. Peck, 95-30 (1, SBPC); PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga, 19.VII–2.VIII.1995, 1000 m, trop. evgrn. forest, FIT, S. & J. Peck, 95-32 (15, SBPC); same data except: 1010 m, 95-33 (9, SBPC; 3, FSCA; 3, MCZC; 3, FMNH). Additional material examined. Dominican Republic: La Vega Prov., PN. A. Bermudez, Cienaga, 19.VII– 2.VIII.1995, 1020 m, trop. evgrn. forest, FIT, S. & J. Peck, 95-34 (15, SBPC); same data except: 21.VII.1995, trop. evgrn. forest litter, 95-44 (1, SBPC); same data except: 2km SW Cienaga, 2.VIII.1995, 1100 m, forest litter, 95-52 (7, SBPC); same data except: 1 km SW Cienaga, 1050 m, 95-53 (1, SBPC) same data except: 1100 m, 95-36 (17, SBPC); 10km NE Jarabacoa, Racquet Club, 550 m, FIT, 20.VII–4.VIII.1995, mixed for., S. & J. Peck, 95-37 (1, SBPC); Res. Cient. Ebano Verde, 19°01.9’N., 70°32.6’W, 4.IX.1997, 1000m, P.W. Kovarik (1, WBIF); Res. Sci. Ebano Verde, 1440m, 5.IX.1997, cloud forest tree fern litter (1, WBIF); Constanza, 1150m, 30.VIII.1988, mixed secondary pine forest, M.A. Ivie, T.K. Phillips, & K.A. Johnson (2, WIBF); 8kmS Constanza, 2.IX.1997, P.W. Kovarik, Berlese cloud for. lit. (3, WIBF); DOM.REP.: Independencia, 32km NW La Descubierta, sabana Real, 1800 m, cloud forest moss and litter, 26.XI.1991, S. & J. Peck, 91-334 (5, SBPC); DOM. REP.: Pedernales, 28kmN Cabo Rojo, 760 m, evergreen dry forest, 29.XI–3.XII.1991, FIT, Masner & Peck, 91-349 (1, SBPC); Las Abejas, 1225m, 18°09’03”N, 71°37’48”W, 28.VII–3.VIII.1999, G.O. Dominici, FIT (2, WIBF); DOM.REP.: Santiago, Par. Nac. A. Bermudez, Los Tablones, 1290m, M.A. & R.O. Ivie, FIT, on Rio Izquiera, 19°03’N, 70°50’W, 9.IV–7.VII.1992 (24, WIBF); DOM. REP.: Prov. Barahona, nr. Filipinas, Larimar Mine, 26.VI–7.VII.1992, R.E. Woodruff & P. Skelley, flight trap (7, FSCA); DOM. REP.: Pico Duarte, N19°08.22 W70°27.73, 1200–1400m. 17.VII.2004, A. Konstantinov, moss sifting (2, FSCA).   
 Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.   
 Etymology. The epithet grandis (Latin, large) refers to the relatively large body 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 pages 49-50, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5184089