Notoxus confluens Krekich-Strassoldo, 1928

Kejval, Zbyněk, 2011, Taxonomic revision of the Oriental species of Notoxus (Coleoptera: Anthicidae), Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae 51 (2), pp. 627-673 : 634-635

Notoxus confluens Krekich-Strassoldo, 1928

( Figs. 7, 8 , 79 )

Notoxus confluens Krekich-Strassoldo, 1928: 70 , fig. 4B.

Type locality. India, Uttarakhand, Kumaon Division, West Almora.

Type material examined. SYNTYPES: 1 J, ‘SYN-TYPE [p; round label, bluish margin] // W.Almora Divn Kumaon U.P. June 1919, H.G.C [p] // 2243 [h] // [male sex mark] // TYPE [p; red label] // H. G. Champion Coll. B.M. 1953- 156 [p] // N. confluens Kr. det. V. Krekich [p+h]’ ( BMNH); 1 J, ‘W.Almora Divn Kumaon U.P. June 1919, H.G.C [p] // TYPE [p; red label] // coll. Heberdey [p] // N. confluens Kr. det.v.Krekich [p+h] // confluens Krek. [h; black frame, ochraceous label]’ ( NHMW).

Diagnosis. Small species (2.8 mm); body reddish brown, with rather vague darker markings on elytra ( Fig. 79 ); head with smaller eyes, its latero-basal outlines distinctly arcuate in dorsal view; pronotal disc evenly convex, rather finely punctured; pronotal horn slender, with continuously fringed apex, 4–5 small lobules on lateral margins (on each side), horn crest moderately raised and very slightly marked laterally by several coarser, widely spaced rugules; punctures in basal half of elytra shallow, dense, their margins sculptured (not smooth).

Male characters (syntype, BMNH). Elytra simple apically, gland opening quite inconspicuous ; abdominal sternum VII nearly simple, slightly unevenly rounded posteriorly; aedeagus as figured ( Figs. 7, 8 ).

Distribution. India: Uttarakhand (KREKICH- STRASSOLDO 1928).

Remarks. KREKICH- STRASSOLDO (1928) described Notoxus confluens from two male specimens provided by H. C. Champion. The syntype deposited in Krekich-Strassoldo’s collection (NHMW) is dissected and its aedeagus is mounted probably on a slide (not examined; see Remarks under N. indicus ). This method of preparation would explain differences between the figure presented here and the original figure of the aedeagus (on a slide it may be strongly depressed and thus deformed).

Figures

Figs. 6–8.Aedeagus:6 – Notoxus bellus Krekich-Strassoldo, 1928, after KREKICH-STRASSOLDO (1928); 7 – N.confluens Krekich-Strassoldo, 1928 (syntype), dorsal view; 8 – the same, lateral view. Scale (0.5 mm): Figs. 7, 8.

Figs. 76–83. Body in dorsal view: 76 – N. psammophilus Telnov, 2007 (Cam Ranh Bay); 77 – N. bellus Krekich- Strassoldo, 1928 (syntype, BMNH); 78 – N. assamensis Krekich-Strassoldo, 1913 (Renok); 79 – N. confluens Krekich-Strassoldo, 1928 (syntype); 80 – N. donckieri Pic, 1908 (syntype); 81 – N. hilaris sp. nov.; 82 – N. indicus Krekich-Strassoldo, 1914 (Umphang); 83 – N. ales Telnov, 2007 (Ban Nape).