Verodes carinatus (Champion)

Foley, Ian A. & Ivie, Michael A., 2008, A phylogenetic analysis of the tribe Zopherini with a review of the species and generic classification (Coleoptera: Zopheridae), Zootaxa 1928 (1), pp. 1-72 : 62

Verodes carinatus (Champion)

Fig. 66

Nosoderma carinatum Champion, 1884: 49 . Gebien, 1936: 669. García-París et al., 2006: 229.

Nosoderma carinata ; Casey, 1907b: 476. Blackwelder, 1945: 514.

Verodes carinatus ; Foley and Ivie, 2007: 71 .

Diagnosis: This species can be difficult to distinguish from V. exsculptus and V. impressus , but can be recognized by the long continuous ridge in the 5 th elytra interval (interrupted in V.impressus ) and having the subapical nodule in the 5 th interval beyond that in the third (opposite in V. exsculptus ).

Distribution: MEXICO: Veracruz.

Recorded distribution: A summary of the 12 specimens examined is MEXICO: VERACRUZ .

Types: Nosoderma carinatum : LECTOTYPE: ♂, intact in BMNH. Orange ringed circle Type/1659 on light blue square/Jacale, Mexico.; Salle Coll./ Nosoderma carinatum, Champ. /B.C.A.Col.IV.1.; Nosoderma carinatum /red square Lectotypus; Nosoderma ; carinatum ; Champion; García-París des 2000. PARALECTO- TYPES: ♀, broken right meso and meta tarsus in BMNH. Las Vigas, Mexico.; Hoege./G.C. Champion Coll.; B.M. 1927-409/red square Paralectotypus; Nosoderma ; carinatum ; Champion; García-París des 2000. ♀, intact in BMNH same data as above/ Paralectotipo M. García-Paris et al. det. 2002.

Figures

FIGURES 65–68. Dorsal habiti. 65. Verodes impressus, Mexico, Veracruz; 66. V. carinatus, Mexico, Veracruz; 67. V. championi, Mexico, Oaxaca;68. V. aequalis, Mexico, Oaxaca. Scale bar = 5 mm.