Verodes asperatus (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 : 60-61

Verodes asperatus (Champion)

Fig. 59

Nosoderma asperatum Champion, 1884: 45 , pl. 2, fig. 9. Gebien, 1936: 669. García-París et al., 2006: 229.

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

Verodes asperatus ; Foley and Ivie, 2007: 70.

Diagnosis: This species can be distinguished by the strongly projecting conical nodules in the apical half of the elytra and lateral elytral margins which appear strongly serrate.

Distribution: Central Mexico at elevations around 1,500 meters in the Sierra Madre Oriental.

Recorded distribution: A summary of the 9 specimens examined is MEXICO: HIDALGO, PUEBLA, SAN LUIS POTOSI, VERACRUZ .

Types: Nosoderma asperatum : LECTOTYPE: ♂, both antennae broken off in BMNH. Orange ringed circle Type/ Mexico; Salle Coll./ Nosoderma ; asperatum Champ MS / Sp. Figured.;B.C.A.Col.IV.1./ red square Lectotypus; Nosoderma ; asperatum Champion ; García-París des 2000. PARALECTOTYPE: ♂, right antennae broken off in BMNH. 1671 on light blue square/ Mexico; Salle Coll./ chewed up label no visible lettering/ Nosoderma ; asperatum Champ MS /B.C.A.Col.IV.1.; Nosoderma asperatum /Foto on white square/ red square Paralectotipo; Nosoderma ; asperatum Champion ; M. García-París et al det. 2002.

Figures

FIGURES 57–60. Dorsal habiti. 57. Verodes inaequalis, Mexico, Puebla.; 58. V. exsculptus, Mexico, Oaxaca; 59. V. asperatus, Mexico, Hidalgo; 60. V. scabrosus, Mexico. Scale bars = 5mm.