Hololepta (Leionota) reichii Marseul

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 : 66

Hololepta (Leionota) reichii Marseul Figure 6

Diagnosis.

Large size (length: 6.9 mm, width: 5.3 mm). Body black, shiny, depressed, elongated, parallel, head prognathous, not retractile, mandibles long, prominent, as long as head. Pronotum lacking punctures, with marginal stria well demarcated, in males ending in a fovea on anterior angles. Pronotal hypomeron glabrous in dorsal view. Elytron lacking spot and punctures, with only two dorsal striae, first stria reduced to anterior half, second complete, almost reaching apex. Propygidium larger than pygidium, pygidium without grooves. Protibiae with four teeth, the two distal ones longer.

Distribution.

Argentina, Brazil, French Guiana, Mexico and Central America ( Mazur 1984, 2011).