Revision of the genus Falsocaenia (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
Author
Bocakova, Milada
Author
Baciakova, Barbora
Author
Nascimento, Elynton Alves Do
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-11
3478
282
296
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.27
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Falsocaenia excavatipes
Pic,
1938
(
Fig. 7
,
22
,
34
)
Falsocaenia excavatipes
Pic,
1938
:
157
.
Type
material.
Holotype
.
Female
, “
Bolivia
,
Coroico
” (
NHMB
).
Diagnosis
.
F. excavatipes
differs from other species of the genus in having elytra parallel-sided. Similar to
F. grisea
from which it differs in having broad transverse yellow stripe on elytra.
Redescription
. Body dark brown to black, only humeral portions of primary costae
3
and
4
, and transverse stripe in posterior
1
/
2–4
/
5
of elytra yellow (
Fig.
7
).
Head with small eyes, distance between eyes
2
x
longer than eye diameter. Mandibles small, arcuate, terminal palpomeres of maxillary and labial palpi apically pointed. Antennae serrate, antennomere
3
as long as
4
(
Fig.
34
). Pronotum transverse,
1.6
x wider basally than long medially. Anterior pronotal margin strongly produced forwards (
Fig.
22
), lateral margins divergent posteriorly, slightly emarginate, posterior angles acute. Scutellum strongly emarginate distally. Elytra slender,
3.5
x longer than humeral width (
Fig.
7
), each elytron parallel-sided, reticulate cells irregular. Male unknown. Body length:
9 mm
, humeral width:
2.2 mm
.
Distribution
.
Bolivia
.
Comment
. Female genitalia of the
holotype
missing.