Euspilotus (Hesperosaprinus) azureus (Sahlberg)
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Euspilotus (Hesperosaprinus) azureus (Sahlberg) Figure 22
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).
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