Euspilotus azureus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Histeridae
Genus: Euspilotus
Name
Euspilotus azureus (Sahlberg) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
Medium to large size (length: 2.9–5.5 mm, width: 2.5–4.7 mm). Body black or metallic blue. Pronotum with a large, shiny disc with finer and dense punctation visible only at 60× magnification, larger on lateral areas and in a single depression on each side close to anterior angles; with marginal stria very close to lateral margin. Pronotal hypomeron glabrous in dorsal view. Elytron with finer and sparse punctation in the intervals on proximal half; distal half with coarse and dense punctation between the second interval and sutural stria; elytral dorsal striae 1–2 almost complete, third absent or reduced to a short row of punctures on basal area, fourth complete on anterior half, fourth and sutural striae connected by a rounded arch. Pygidium with punctures and with a transverse subapical groove reaching lateral margins. Protibiae with outer margin expanded and 7–13 short, reddish denticles, the most basal ones very small.
Distribution
Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela (Mazur 2011[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Aballay, F; Arriagada, G; Flores, G; Néstor D. Centeno, ; 2013: An illustrated key to and diagnoses of the species of Histeridae (Coleoptera) associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina ZooKeys, 261: 61-84. doi
Other References
- ↑ Mazur S (2011) A concise catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Warzaw University of Life Sciences, SGGW Press, 332 pp.
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