Euspilotus (Hesperosaprinus) pavidus (Erichson)

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 : 71

Euspilotus (Hesperosaprinus) pavidus (Erichson) Figure 18

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; Mazur 2011; Aballay et al. 2008, 2012).