Amaurodera verrucosa ASSING, 2003

Assing, Volker, 2015, New species and additional records of Lomechusini from the Palaearctic region, primarily from China (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Beiträge Zur Entomologie = Contributions to Entomology 65 (2), pp. 243-262 : 259

Amaurodera verrucosa ASSING, 2003 and A. fulgens ASSING, 2003

Comment: In a recent article on miscellaneous aleocharines from Nepal, PACE (2013) synonymized A. verrucosa with A. martensi COIFFAIT, 1982 and A. fulgens with A. silvana PACE, 1992 stating that he did not see any differences in the aedeagal morphology, evidently because he had seen material of neither A. verrucosa nor A. fulgens . True, as emphasized by ASSING (2003), A. fulgens is very similar to A. martensi , most likely its adelphotaxon, both in external and sexual characters, but it differs by constant differences of the aedeagal shape (ventral view) and in external characters (particularly elytral punctation). Moreover, the distributions of both species are allopatric. In the case of A. silvana and A. fulgens , the external and sexual characters distinguishing both species are so obvious and so numerous (see the key, descriptions, and illustrations in ASSING (2003)) that considering these names synonyms appears somewhat bizarre. In conclusion, both A. verrucosa and A. fulgens are formally revalidated.