Genus Zoodes Pascoe
Zoodes Pascoe, 1867, Ann. Mag. Nat, Hist., ser 3, 19: 319 (type-species : Stromatium ? maculatum White, 1855) loc. cit.; 1869, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., ser 3, 3 : 532. - Gahan, 1906b, Fauna British India, Col. 1 : 115. - Aurivillius, 1912, Coleopt. Cat., 39 : 73. - Gressitt & Rondon, 1970, Pac. Ins. Monogr., 24 : 52
Diagnostic characters : head raised between antennal insertion, medianly groove; frons vertical, flat; clypeus depressed; eye emarginate with upper lobe narrow; antennae longer than body in both sexes, scape pyriform; prothorax transverse, side not depressed but with obstuse protuberance; elytra parallel, dehiscent at sutural tip; femora elongated, subfusiform.
Zoodes cornutus LACORDAIRE
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Zoodes cornutus Lacordaire, 1869, Gen. Cal., 8 : 282 (loc. cit.). - Pascoe, 1869, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., ser 3, 3 : 533. - Aurivillius, 1912, Coleopt. Cat., 39 : 73. Diagnostic characters : two oblique brownish stripes on each elytron. |
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Brownish-ferrugineous; head and prothorax dark castaneous; the former entirely clothed with dense silky yellowish tawny pubescence; elytra evenly with tawny pubescence, disc with 2 fuscous oblique stripes, one before and the other after the middle; undersurfaces and legs brownish-testaceous with dense yellowish tawny pubescence.
Head short; elevated ridge
between antannal insertion level dorsally and, subvertically behind in 
; frons
depressed with lateral ridge, anterior margin also ridged; clypeus sunken. Antenna longer than body; fringed
beneath; scape punctulate; 3 half longer than scape; 4 subequal to scape; 5 - 9 (10
- 11 missing) successively shorten. Prohtorax distinctively longer than broad; side with a Hunt.
tubercle and somewhat angulate; disc uneven; pronotum with 4 blunt tubercle side
of median and a median protuberance behind middle; prosternum vellutenous;
intercoxal process of prosternum acutely vertical at posterior. Elytron 5.5 X
as long as broad; disc granulo-punctulate; highly pubescent to vellutenous; oblique brownish stripes sub-investitus. Legs : femora elongated fusiform; mide
coxae slightly depressed; tibiae linear.
Measurement : Length 20.0 mm (); breadth 7.0 mm
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Distribution : Sarawak ; Singapore; Peninsular
Malaysia (Malacca)
Material examined : 1 Kuching, Kuching Div.,
26.IX.1900 (SM Coll.)