Species Sparedrus aspersus

Sparedrus aspersus (LeConte)

Orig. Comb: Calopus aspersus LeConte, 1866 (not 1886 as commonly cited, LeConte's last pub was in 1883)

aspersus = 'spotty/scattered' (may refer to black dots on elytra or to sporadic distribution(?))

11 mm (Type)

Det. M. A. Quinn, 2012

Dallas to c. TX - Map (1)(2) - common in the Hill Country of c. TX (E.G. Riley, pers. comm. to MAQ, 2012)

Mar-Apr (BG data)

Adults come to lights (E.G. Riley, pers. comm., 2012)

This species differs from S. angustus not only by the small smooth spots of the elytra but by the form of the thorax which has the sides straight merely a little rounded near the apex. In S. angustus the thorax is feebly campanulate (shaped like a bell), the sides being rounded near the apex and then broadly sinuate to the base. The pubescence of the elytra is uniform in the latter while in S. aspersus longer hairs are intermixed. (LeConte 1866)

LeConte, J.L. 1866. New species of North American Coleoptera. Prepared for the Smithsonian Institution. Part 1 (concluded). Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections 6(167): 87-168.

Type - MCZ, Harvard