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Hi, @ Paulo: Thanks for Determination! So I can fix it. In this locality H. chrysonota, H. ignicollis and H. austrialis live together. That makes it sometimes a litte difficult for me. But I try to get better pictures. @ Horst: Ja, obwohl aus der Region nachgewiesen, war es für ...

... hard getting good pictures because of the strong wind, the quickness of the animals and my ten years old cam... the first two show a male of H. austrialis. Maybe this goes into the direction of the animal I wished to have determinated. I cannot exclude H. ignicollis, but I took some pictures ...

Hi Paul,

it can be Holopyga austrialis or H. ignicollis, but it is not clear from the pictures.
Did you collect the specimen?

... specimen isn´t possible, as a photographer and entomologist ( I study Staphylinidae and myrmecophilous beetles) i know this problem. Concerning H. austrialis you are right, I have just checked Pavel´s paper from 2007. You know, I have collected Ch. cf. lanceolata on the same habitat as Ch. laechii ...

Hi Pavel, I cannot ID your specimen, without its examination. It could be a male of H. austrialis Linsenmaier, 1959 (this is the correct name, as correctly written in Tyrner's paper (2007)), H. ignicollis Dahlbom (sensu Linsenmaier), or H. jurinei Chevrier (sensu Linsenmaier). ...