Deltochilum pauxi is a species of beetle of the family Scarabaeidae.Global Biodiversity Information Facility It is found in Colombia (Santander).
Description Adults reach a length of about . They are pale greenish-brown dorsally and dark greenish-blue ventrally. They can be distinguished from all other species within the plebejum species group by having the punctures on the anterolateral areas of the metaventral process incompletely closed, in combination with a salient medial angle on the pronotum (this angle is rounded in all other species). Deltochilum altiventris also exhibits these incompletely closed punctures, but it differs in several ways: the male first ventrite is elevated and the striae are narrow.
Etymology The species name refers to the type locality, RN Pauxi pauxi.
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