Sicoderus sleeperi Vanin

Sicoderus sleeperi Vanin

(Figures 67–68, 72. Map 1)

Sicoderus sleeperi Vanin 1986: 598. Holotype male (USNM) from Cayamas, Cuba, examined.

Anderson 1999: 135.

Description: Length male, 2.8–4.2 mm; length female 3.0– 3.8 mm. Integument black, shining. Eyes separated by a distance of about one-half width rostrum at midlength. Rostrum 0.86–0.95x length elytra in male; 0.85–0.95x length elytra in female. Antennal insertion slightly beyond middle in male, at about middle in female. Prothorax constricted anteriorly, globose, widest at about middle; punctures regularly spaced, small and shallow, widely separated on disc but slightly larger, deeper on flanks but not forming striolae; erect setae absent. Elytra in dorsal view widest at just behind midlength, lateral margins very slightly convergent or subparallel anteriorly and posteriorly; humeri present, angulate; scattered setae present. Strial punctures moderately large, deep; striae not to very slightly impressed throughout length. Membranous wings present. Abdominal ventrite 1 of male slightly raised in middle near posterior margin to small tubercle with small transverse patch of setosity at tip, of female, even rounded. Ventrite 5 of male flattened medially towards apex, of female uniformly convex, not setose. Legs with front femora with inner margin with well-developed small acute tooth, middle and hind femora each with very small, blunt tooth; tarsal claws with small basal tooth. Aedeagus (fig. 72) widest towards apex, internal sac with basal sclerite complex of a single curved elongate sclerite and other amorphous sclerites. Female not dissected.

Material examined: CUBA: Province Cienfuegos, Soledad, iv.1936, P.J. Darlington Jr. (1 male, MCZC). Province Pinar del Rio, San Vicenté, 9.VII.1940, J.C. Bradley (1 male; CMNC). Aspiro-Rangel, 16.VI.1959, M.W. Sanderson, C59-28 (1 male; CMNC: 1 male, 1 female; CWOB). Province Guantanamo, El Yunque, 360m, 20.34501, -74.56642, IV.2012 CarBio Team, CU-15 (1 male; CMNC). Province Artemisia, Bacunayagua, V. 1993, J.A. Genaro (2 males; USNM). Province Santiago de Cuba, Florida Blanca, nr. Alto Songo, 23–24.V.1959, M.W.

Sanderson (1 male; CWOB). The type series from Cuba: Cayamas (holotype, 2 paratype males, 4 paratype females; USNM) was also examined.

Comments: This is the only known Sicoderus species from Cuba in which the humeri are angulate.