Pinodytes pusio

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, Zootaxa 3077 (1), pp. 1-118 : 20

Pinodytes pusio species group

Diagnosis. This group is defined by the following combination of characters: head and pronotal microsculpture transverse substriate; antennomeres 7 and 8 subequal in size; antennomeres 9 and 10 bearing sensory vesicles; male protibia slender, weakly widened to apex; male protarsomeres bearing phanerae ventrally, mesotarsomeres lack phanerae; mesoventritesl longitudinal carina not excavated anteriorly; median lobe of aedeagus elongate, variously widened; parameres elongate, usually extending beyond apex of median lobe, broad, with flattened apices, each bearing two setae before apex.