Bakeriella floridana Evans 1964

Bakeriella floridana Evans, 1964

(Figs 43–50)

Bakeriella floridana Evans 1964: 117 (fig. 84), 118 (list), 119 (key), 134–136 (♂ and ♀ descriptions); Evans 1970: 347 (additional material); Evans 1979: 257 (list), 258, 259 (key), 264 (comment); Gordh & Móczár 1990: 71 (catalog); Azevedo 1994: 149 (key); Kawada & Azevedo 2003: 467–468 (additional material); Azevedo et al. 2005: 165 (comment). floridana [lapsus calami]: Evans 1966a: 273 (comparison); Evans 1970: 347 (comment); Evans & Fullerton, 1997: 178 (comparison).

Material examined. Holotype ♂: [U.S.A.], Florida, [Dade Co.], Paradise Key, II (=Feb.), Brooks col. (MCZH, #30807). Allotype ♀: [U.S.A.], Florida, [Dade Co.], Paradise Key, II (=Feb.), Brooks col. (MCZH). New material: DOM[INICAN] REP[UBLIC], 2 ♂, Sierra de Bahoruco, Alcoard km 25, montane dry forest, 18.I.1989, L. Masner col. (CNCI), 1 ♂, Pedernales, 26 km N Cabo Rojo, evergreen dry for[est], 730m, 3.XII.1991, L. Masner col. (CNCI).

Diagnosis. MALE (Fig. 43). Almost black. Mandible with five apical teeth (Fig. 44). Clypeus with angulate median lobe. Antennal scrobe carinate from torulus to inner margin of eye. Frons coriaceous. Vertex slightly convex. Pronotal disc with anterior corner rounded; anterior carina evident; median carina absent; lateral margin not carinate, but acute; posterior margin not paralleled by series of foveae. Scutellar pit transverse. Mesopleuron with subtegular groove sinuous; anterior fovea subrounded; upper fovea elliptical; lower fovea with upper margin absent (Fig. 45). Genitalia (Figs 46, 47): paramere evenly wide, apex rounded, dorsal and ventral margins straight; cuspis deeply divided into two arms, dorsal arm shorter and wider than ventral arm, cuspis apex not aligned with paramere apex; aedeagus bottle-shaped, apex not touching cuspis apex, rounded apex, rising from second basal fourth, basal margin straight, apical half distinctly narrower than basal half; base of apodeme dilated and directed outward; ventral surface with conspicuous projection ventrad, and medially hairy.

FEMALE (Fig. 48). Almost black. Mandible with five apical teeth (Fig. 49). Clypeus with angulate median lobe. Antennal scrobe not carinate. Frons coriaceous. Vertex convex. Pronotal disc with anterior corner not angulate; anterior carina evenly arched forward; median carina absent; lateral margin not carinate; posterior margin not paralleled by series of foveae. Scutellar pit transverse. Propodeal disc with posterior corner not foveolate. Mesopleuron with subtegular groove narrowing posterad; anterior fovea rounded; upper fovea elliptical; lower fovea with upper margin absent (Fig. 50).

Distribution. U.S.A. (Florida), Dominican Republic, Jamaica.