Revision of the genus Falsocaenia (Coleoptera: Lycidae)
Author
Bocakova, Milada
Author
Baciakova, Barbora
Author
Nascimento, Elynton Alves Do
text
Zootaxa
2012
2012-09-11
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282
296
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3478.1.27
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Falsocaenia ecuadorensis
sp. nov.
(
Figs 3
,
18
,
32
,
75
)
Type
material.
Holotype
,
female
,
Ecuador
, “
Bucay
,
F. Ohaus
,
15
.vii.
1911
”, without other data (
ZMPA
).
Diagnosis.
It can be distinguished from
F. longehumeralis
by body coloration with almost all elytra dark brown and by the presence of small testaceous humeral spots (not stripes), further in the shape of pronotum with anterior angles rounded.
Description.
Whole body dark brown, except small humeral spots on elytra yellow (
Fig.
3
). Eyes mediumsized, distance between eyes
1.3
x longer than maximal eye diameter in female. Both, maxillary and labial, palpi brown. Antennomere
3
slightly (
1.1
x) shorter than
4
(
Fig.
32
). Pronotum at base (
Fig.
18
)
1.7
x wider than long medially, anterior pronotal angles rounded. Elytra
3.3
x longer than humeral width, slightly (
1.5
x) widened in posterior
2
/
5
. Female genitalia slender (
Fig.
75
), coxites approached distally. Body length:
8.9 mm
, humeral width:
2.3 mm
.
Etymology
. The name is derived from the state of occurrence.
Remark.
Left and right antennomeres
10–11
of the
holotype
missing.