Euspilotus Lewis, 1907

Lackner, Tomáš, 2010, Review of the Palaearctic genera of Saprininae (Coleoptera: Histeridae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae (suppl.) 50, pp. 1-254 : 105

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.4272127
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4342087
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385915E-FFFB-0945-60A9-FD7DCD88FC2E
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Euspilotus Lewis, 1907
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Euspilotus Lewis, 1907 View in CoL

Euspilotus Lewis, 1907: 320 View in CoL . Type species: Euspilotus zonalis Lewis, 1907 View in CoL , by original designation.

Euspilotus: BICKHARDT (1916) View in CoL : 81, 83; WENZEL (1962): 375; KRYZHANOVSKIJ & REICHARDT (1976): 111, 124; VIENNA (1980): 126; MAZUR & KASZAB (1980): 6, 47; MAZUR (1984): 64; DOWNIE & ARNETT (1996): 607, 608; MAZUR (1997): 232; BOUSQUET & LAPLANTE (1999): 142, 158; MAZUR (2001): 20, 31; KOVARIK & CATERINO (2001): 221, 223; YÉLAMOS (2002): 245, 293; MAZUR (2004): 91; BOUSQUET & LAPLANTE (2006): 80, 121.

Distribution. This species-rich genus is distributed across North, Central and South America where it, with 76 described species, dominates the Saprininae subfamily. Two additional species of the subgenus Neosaprinus Bickhardt, 1909 have been described from the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions, respectively (see below for details) ( MAZUR 1997).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Histeridae