Euspilotus pavidus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Histeridae
Genus: Euspilotus
Name
Euspilotus pavidus (Erichson) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
Medium size (length: 2.4–3.8 mm, width: 2.1–3.2 mm). Body black with elytron dark reddish. Pronotum with large, shiny, and smooth disc with finer and sparse punctation; anterior, lateral and basal areas with coarse and dense punctation, with two longitudinal, lateral, depressed punctate areas. Pronotal hypomeron glabrous in dorsal view. Elytron with coarse and dense punctuation on distal third from interval 2 to sutural stria, on proximal half with finer and sparse punctation in intervals 1-4; elytral striae 1-2 almost complete, second longer than first, 3-4 surpassing the middle of elytron on posterior half, with inner subhumeral stria well demarcated, sometimes reduced. Pygidium with punctures, without grooves. Protibiae with outer margin expanded and 7–8 short, reddish denticles.
Distribution
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, French Guiana, Paraguay, Uruguay, Suriname, and Central America (Arriagada 1987[1]; Mazur 2011[2]; Aballay et al. 2008[3], 2012[4]).
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
- ↑ Arriagada G (1987) Notas sinonímicas y datos distribucionales de Saprininae Neotropicales (Coleoptera: Histeridae). Revista Chilena de Entomología 15: 61-70.
- ↑ Mazur S (2011) A concise catalogue of the Histeridae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Warzaw University of Life Sciences, SGGW Press, 332 pp.
- ↑ Aballay F, Murúa A, Acosta J, Centeno N (2008) Primer registro de artropodofauna cadavérica en sustratos humanos y animales en San Juan, Argentina. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 67: 157-163.
- ↑ Aballay F (2012) Estudios estacionales en composición, colonización y asociación de la entomofauna cadavérica, en relación a los estadios de descomposición en zonas áridas de llanura y de altura. PhD Thesis, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Buenos Aires province.
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