Euspilotus (sensu stricto) ornatus (Blanchard)

Aballay, Fernando H., Arriagada, Gerardo, Flores, Gustavo E. & Nestor D. Centeno,, 2013, An illustrated key to and diagnoses of the species of Histeridae (Coleoptera) associated with decaying carcasses in Argentina, ZooKeys 261, pp. 61-84 : 70

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.261.4226

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scientific name

Euspilotus (sensu stricto) ornatus (Blanchard)
status

 

Euspilotus (sensu stricto) ornatus (Blanchard) Figure 15

Diagnosis.

Medium size (length: 2.5-3.5 mm, width: 2.3-3.2 mm). Body black, elytron with yellow or orange spot. Pronotum: disc with finer and sparse punctation, lateral areas and base with coarse and dense punctation. Pronotal hypomeron setose in dorsal view. Elytron with punctation coarse and dense on posterior half, finer and sparser on anterior half defining a shining area between intervals 3 and 4; elytral dorsal striae 1-2 and 4 complete on anterior half, third interrupted, fourth and sutural striae connected by a rounded arch; elytral spot occupying the distal half of elytron with distal margin straight and three digitiform projections anterad, the outer one between the first and second dorsal striae, the medial one between the third and fourth dorsal elytral striae, and the inner one close to the sutural elytral stria. Pygidium without grooves. Protibiae with outer margin expanded and 8-10 short, reddish denticles.

Distribution.

Argentina and Chile ( Mazur 2011; Aballay et al. 2008, 2012).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

Genus

Euspilotus