Figure 57

Diagnostic description. Body strongly convex. Length 1.0– 1.1 mm; greatest width 0.7 mm. Yellow to light brown, shining, with faint reticulate microsculpture. Head finely, moderately sparsely punctate. Antennal club moderately robust. Eyes large. Pronotum finely, sparsely punctate; sides rounded, posterior angles rounded. Elytral striae weakly impressed; strial punctures large, closely spaced; interstriae finely, sparsely punctate. Flight wings fully developed. Vertical face of mesosternum broad, convex, not medially carinate. Metasternum coarsely, densely punctate laterally; punctures smaller medially. Mesofemur unmodified in both sexes. Male metafemur with toothlike process at apex of posterior margin; metafemur unmodified in female. In both sexes, meso- and metatibiae broad and spinose. Male with more dense setae ventrally on pro- and mesotarsi. Median lobe of aedeagus (Fig. 57) elongate, broad, with inwardly curved, paired apices. Parameres slender, straight or weakly curved, reaching beyond apex of median lobe, each bearing 2 apical setae. Inverted internal sac with elongate rod-like structure divided in basal half. Spermatheca of two connected spheres.

Type material. Holotype, male, with the following label data: “DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC]: San Cristobal / Prov. Borbon, Cuevas / Pomier, trop. decid. for./ 200m, leaf litter, 28.VII./ 95, S.+ J. Peck, 95- 48” (SBPC). Paratypes (6) have the following label data: same data as holotype except: FIT, 13–28.VII.95, 95-23 (4, SBPC); same data except: 28.VII–5.VIII.95 (2, SBPC).

Distribution. Known only from Hispaniola.

Etymology. The epithet nanus (Latin, little) refers to the small size of this species.