Heilipus draco

Body length 1.60–2.28 mm (rostrum length), integument slightly rugose and shining, reddish-brown to dark and light brown. Rostrum subcylindrical, almost straight before antennal insertion, 1.05–1.32 times as long as pronotum; in males 1.61–2.00 mm, 1.06–1.21 times pronotal length; in females 1.60–2.28 mm, 1.05–1.32 times pronotal length, slightly more slender and longer than male, with weak lateral constriction after antennal insertion; basal half slightly rugose, covered by short pale scales. Antenna inserted near middle of rostrum in females; scape reddish-brown, half rostral length in females, almost two-thirds in males, 2–3 times as long as segment I; club elongate oval, almost twice as long as wide, twice length of segment I. Eyes separated by 0.43–0.56 times rostral width at base in frontal view. Pronotum wider than long, 0.76–0.91 times as long as wide; disc less convex; with wide lateral stripe of dense imbricate oval-shaped white or yellowish scales, sometimes bordered by pale or whitish scales; anterior margin ventrally with row of yellowish setae. Elytra wider and less elongate; with lateral C-shaped whitish or yellowish stripe of imbricate oval-shaped scales extending along anterior half to two-thirds of elytral length, with irregular margins; declivital calli prominent, covered with few short scales, surrounded by irregular patch of imbricate yellowish oval-shaped scales sometimes bordered by whitish scales. Abdominal ventrites slightly less convex; ventrites III and IV equal in width, half width of II. Legs and ventral surfaces sparsely covered with short oval-shaped whitish and yellowish scales. Metaventrite convex, with strong depression near posterior margin.

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