Phellopsis
Creators: name: Foley, Ian A.
name: Ivie, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Phellopsis

description: Key to the Species of Phellopsis
1 Lateral margin of elytra appearing smooth in dorsal view (Fig. 2 A–B); North America. ......................... 2
- Lateral margin of elytra appearing serrate in dorsal view (Fig. 3, 4 A–D); Asia ........................................ 3
2 Hypomeron lacking intertuberculate setae (Fig. 2 C); lateral margin of pronotum strongly bisinuate in lateral view; elytral punctures large, discal tubercles less than ¼ diameter of puncture; posterior margin of prointercoxal process straight to weakly concave. Eastern North America. ............... P. obcordata (Kirby)
- Hypomeron with dense setae between tubercles (Fig. 2 D); lateral margin of pronotum arcuate to weakly bisinuate in lateral view; elytral punctures small, discal tubercles about ½ diameter of punctures; posterior margin of prointercoxal process bisinuate. Western North America ............................ P. porcata (LeConte)
3 Outer margin of suprantennal ridge emarginate; head between frons with very large tubercles (Fig. 6 B); gula at narrowest point approximately 0.2X the width of the apex of the submentum (Fig. 7 A). Japan ...... ............................................................................................................................................ P. suberea Lewis
- Outer margin of suprantennal ridge straight to convex (Figs. 6 A, C, D); head between frons with at most small indistinct tubercles (Figs. 6 A, C, D); gula approximately 0.65X width of the apex of the submentum (Fig. 7 B). Mainland Asia...................................................................................................................... 4
4 Elytral humerus with nearly 90° notch (Fig. 3 A, 4A); striae with linear series of rounded punctures; sub-
gena with raised tubercles. Russian Far East and Korean Peninsula. ....................... P. amurensis (Heyden) - Elytral humerus rounded or flattened but not distinctly notched (Fig. 3 B–D, 4B–D); striae with irregular punctures; subgena with indistinct, flat tubercles (Fig. 7 B) ........................................................................ 5
5 Setae of pronotal disc broad, scale-like, golden (Fig. 5 A); elytral disc irregularly squarrose; ventrites with very large flat tubercles (Fig. 4 E); pronotal disc between and anterior to lyriform ridges lacking distinct tubercles; disc of hypomeron with intertuberculate setae. Central China. ............. P. chinensis (Semenow)
- Setae of pronotal disc narrow, hair-like, red (Fig. 5 B); elytral disc plain and striate; ventrites with smaller tubercles (Fig. 4 F); pronotal disc between and anterior to lyriform ridges with distinct tubercles; disc of hypomeron lacking intertuberculate setae. Western China. .................. P. yulongensis Foley and Ivie n.sp.
description: Published as part of Foley, Ian A. & Ivie, Michael A., 2008, A revision of the genus Phellopsis LeConte (Coleoptera: Zopheridae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 1689 on pages 8-9, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180605