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that genus the setae on the sides of the mesothorax arise from a 
ridge above the side of the expanded mesosternum. Bonadona has 
placed it in Stricticomus, an Old World group characterized by the 
shape of the prothorax. While this is a convenient way to split up 
the numerous species of Anthicus, the division has not been defined 
on a phylogenetic basis. 
Anthicus subtilis-group 
Five species of Anthicus in the Greater Antilles form a very dis- 
tinctive group. The males have a unique tuft of long setae on the 
sides of the tegmen and the species share enough external features 
that two of them are indistinguishable in the female sex. Of the five, 
two have been taken only on Hispaniola, one only on Cuba, one on 
Hispaniola and Cuba, and one on Cuba and Jamaica, the last with 
some geographical variation on the two islands. All three species on 
Hispaniola are at least partly sympatric, as indicated by the labels, 
as are two on Cuba. 
Anthicus subtilis LaFerte 
Fig. 1, 18. 
Anthicus subtilis LaFerte 1848: 135-6 (type-locality: LaFerte states it as Colombia, 
collected by Moritz, but the specimens probably originated in the Greater 
Antilles). 
2.47-2.76 mm, pale rufescent, legs, antennae and palpi dull lute- 
ous, tibiae obscurely darker at base, elytra with pale brown median 
marking widely interrupted at suture and more or less triangular 
with a mesal point, and a narrow, usually paler, diagonal subapical 
band. Pubescence short, fine, almost appressed, dulling the gener- 
ally shiny surface; punctures fine and not very evident except on base 
of pronotum. On the elytra the pubescence in this and the other 
species of the subtilis-group is slightly diagonal over most of the 
surface, to ca. 45° in the postbasal transverse impression and nearly 
transverse on rear of the weak omoplates. 
(5, Ennery, Haiti, 2.66 mm. Head 44/53,47, almost semicircular 
behind prominent eyes, with a slight impression at midline. Eyes 
22/16, 35 apart, 16 from base. Disc evenly convex, shiny, with 
small, well-defined punctures ca. 5 apart, and more numerous very 
fine punctures on intervals, punctures collectively ca. 1 apart. Setae 
fine, silky, decumbent. Antennae unusually slender, segments 16/7, 
