Verodes Casey and Phellopsi 1907
Creators: name: Foley, Ian A.
name: Ivie, Michael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Zopheridae
Verodes

description: Key to the species of Verodes Casey   
1 Dorsal surface of pronotum with all setae singly inserted at the base of tubercles; tubercles on pronotum uniformly distributed.................................................................................................................................................................... 2  
- Dorsal surface of pronotum with dense setae between tubercles inserted directly on cuticular surface; tubercles on pronotum more dense on ridges, and absent in intervening areas...............................................................................5  
 2 Pronotal and elytral surface smooth with dense flattened tubercles lacking any distinct ridges or nodules; male femoral nodules absent. Mexico, Oaxaca. Fig. 68 ......................................................................... V. aequalis (Champion)   
- Pronotal and elytral surfaces with distinct ridges and nodules; male femoral nodules present on at least meso and metafemora................................................................................................................................................................... 3  
 3 Metepisternum irregularly foveolate; elytra elongate, 1.95–2.05 X longer than widest point; elytra smooth at apex. Guatemala. Fig. 62 .................................................................................................................... V. sparsus (Champion)   
- Metepisternum tuberculate; elytra more stout, 1.60–1.75 X longer than widest point; elytra very shallowly to deeply emarginate at apex. Mexico and Central America....................................................................................................... 4  
 4 Elytra shallowly emarginate at apex, rounded; subapical area of elytra with single elevated nodule. Mexico and Central America. Fig. 64 ....................................................................................................... V. guatemalensis (Champion)   
 - Elytra deeply emarginate at apex, sharply pointed; subapical area of elytra with nodule with two distinct elevations. Mexico and Central America. Fig. 63 .................................................................................... V. zunilensis (Champion)   
 5 Ridge or nodule in 5 th elytral interval very short, or long, but never reaching the base of the elytra.......................... 6   
 - Ridge in 5 th elytral interval very short, or moderately long, but always reaching the base of the elytra..................... 8   
 6 Third elytral interval with short ridge at base; 5 th elytral interval with arcuate ridge from level of just behind mesocoxal cavities to the suture between ventrites 2 and 3; apical third of elytron with three moderate sized nodules subequal in size, one near apex slightly smaller than subapical two. Mexico. Fig. 57 ......................... V. inaequalis (Say)   
 - Third elytral interval with nodule at base, may be fused to short ridge in 5th; 5 th elytral interval with disconnected nodules arranged in a row approximately from the level of the midpoint of metasternum to suture between ventrites 1 and 2; apical third of elytron with three large projecting conical nodules, lateral subapical one very large, much larger than one near apex. Mexico.............................................................................................................................. 7   
 7 Apical margin appearing very strongly serrate; subapical nodules extremely large and conical. Mexico, Hidalgo. Fig. 59 ............................................................................................................................................ V. asperatus (Champion)   
 - Apical margin of elytra weakly serrate; subapical nodules rounded. Mexico. Fig. 60 ................. V. scabrosus (Solier)   
 8 Apical half of elytra with 6 distinct nodules not connected to ridges. Mexico. Fig. 67 .............. V. championi (Casey)   
- Apical half with 4 or fewer nodules not connected to ridges....................................................................................... 9  
 9 Fifth elytral interval with ridge distinctly hooked at apex; apex of elytra with swollen ridge around suture; ridge starting at base of elytra curved towards midline. Mexico. Fig. 61 ..................................... V. interruptus (Champion)   
- Fifth elytral interval with straight to arcuate ridge, but never hooked at apex; apex of elytra along suture flattened; ridge starting at base of elytra straight....................................................................................................................... 10  
 10 Subapical nodule in 3 rd elytral interval extending farther towards apex than nodule in the 5 th interval; nodules and ridges relatively weakly elevated. Mexico. Figs. 55, 58 ...................................................... V. exsculptus (Champion)   
 - Subapical nodule in 5 th elytral interval extending farther towards apex than nodule in the 3 rd interval; nodules and ridges more distinctly elevated.................................................................................................................................. 11   
 11 Ridge in 5 th elytral interval extending continuously from the base to beyond the level of the start of ventrite 2. Mexico. Fig. 66 .............................................................................................................................. V. carinatus (Champion)   
 - Ridge in 5 th elytral interval distinctly interrupted into basal and apical half, with median lateral depression across elytra near the level of the metacoxae. Mexico. Fig. 65 ....................................................... V. impressus (Champion)
description: Published as part of 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), pp. 1-72 in Zootaxa 1928 (1) on pages 53-54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1928.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5230727