Ascelosodis Redtenbacher, 1868

Ren, Guo-Dong & Shi, Ai-Min, 2006, A taxonomic review of the Chinese species from the genus Ascelosodis Redtenbacher (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), with descriptions of three new species, Zootaxa 1228, pp. 1-24 : 2

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.172696
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6261323
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/F66D3B09-1416-4066-FED6-368CFB64FAF2
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Ascelosodis Redtenbacher, 1868
status

Treatment

Ascelosodis Redtenbacher 1868: 117 ; Bates 1879: 468; Reitter 1900: 87; Blair 1923: 278; Koch 1948: 76; Kaszab 1959: 356; 1968: 48; Doyen 1993: 500.

Diagnosis

Ascelosodis can be distinguished from its closely allied genera by the combination of the following characters: sides of thorax and elytra ciliate beneath, clypeus trilobed, clypeal lobe of head obviously prominent, eyes covered by pronotum, posterior angles of pronotum rectangular, obtuse or rounded, outer margins of mesotibiae without groove.

Type species

Ascelosodis serripes Redtenbacher, 1868 , by monotypy.

Distribution

Himalayas from Kashmir to Sikkim, Tadzhikistan, Afghanistan and China (Tibet).