Holconotus ferrugineus Schmidt-Göbel, 1846

Figs 3, 8, 20, 27–28.

Schmidt-Göbel, 1846: Tab.2, Fig.6 (Burma: Tenasserim?); Chaudoir, 1869: 399 ( Abacetus); 1876: 352; Bates, 1892: 364; Tschitschérine, 1898: 453–454; Andrewes, 1923: 57; 1930: 167 ( Fouquetius); Habu, 1961: 285; Lorenz, 1998: 238 (part.); 2005: 259 (part.). — kovacsi Csiki, 1929: 515.

MATERIAL. Nine specimens (ZISP), labelled: ♂, ‘ Rangoon [= Yangon], Birmania, Fea, 1884’; ♀, ‘Birma’; ♀, ‘Birma’, ‘Motsch.’, ‘к. Чичерина’, ‘ Cholconotus ferrugineus Sch. ’; 2 ♀♀ (glued on paper rectangles on one pin), ‘ Holconotus ferrugineus Schm., Birma’, ‘Coll. Solsky’; 3 ♀♀, Palon, (Pegu), L.Fea. VIII-IX.87’, one of them with additional label ‘ Hoplonotus ferrugineus Chd. ’ and another one with labels ‘Ex Musaeo H.BATES, 1899’, ‘ Holc. ferrugineus Chd., Tschitscherin det.’, ‘ HOLCONOTUS Schm. -Goeb. — Chaud.’; ♀, ‘Madras’, ‘Ex Musaeo H.BATES, 1899’, ‘ Holc. ferrugineus Chd., Tschitscherin det.’, ‘1907, к. Чичерина’. — Aedeagus examined in the male.

DIAGNOSIS. See the respective section for the previous species.

REDESCRIPTION. No differences from H. lioderus except as follows: Body more robust (Fig. 3), BL 3.4–4.7 mm. Frontal sulci very deep anteriorly. Pronotum broader, half wider than long, PW/PL 1.45–1.55 (1.48, n=7), four fifths wider than head, PW/HW 1.75–1.83 (1.81). Base almost half wider than apex, PB/PA 1.43–1.52 (1.47), distinctly, sparsely to moderately, punctate outside basal sulci. Elytra slightly shorter, EL/EW 1.46–1.50 (1.48); intervals 6 and 8 confluent before apex. Profemur not modified in male, i.e., without ventral tubercle or tooth (Fig. 8). Protarsomeres 1–3 indistinctly dilated in male.

Aedeagus (Figs 20, 27–28): median lobe in lateral view much less abruptly curved, with apex in ventral view widely rounded and very short.

HABITATS AND HABITS. No data.